The width of theshell is 3–7 mm. The height of the shell is 4–8 mm. The colour is brown or grey. There are 4 to 4.5 very convexwhorls forming a short cone with a very deepsuture in comparison toBithynia tentaculata. Thespire is shorter and less sharp than inBithynia tentaculata. Theaperture andoperculum upside are smoothly rounded. The aperture is without a sharp point on the upper corner.[9]
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^Sheppard R. (1823). "Descriptions of seven new British land and fresh-water shells, with observations upon many other species, including a list of such as have been found in the county of Suffolk".Transactions of the Linnean Society of London14(1): 148–170,page 152.
^Beran L. & Horsák M. (2009) "Distribution ofBithynia leachii (Sheppard, 1823) andBithynia troschelii (Paasch, 1842) (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae) in the Czech Republic".Malacologica Bohemoslovaca8: 19–23.PDF.
^ab(in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]".Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1–37.PDF.
