Valvata macrostoma

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Valvata macrostoma

Conservation status
NE
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Ectobranchia
Family: Valvatidae
Genus: Valvata
Species: V. macrostoma
Binomial name
Valvata macrostoma
Mörch, 1864

Valvata macrostoma is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

[edit] Habitat

This species lives in marshes and very small canals that have a very rich fauna and calcium-rich water.

[edit] Distribution and conservation status

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 10 November 2007.
  2. ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
  • Janus, Horst, 1965. ‘’The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs’’, Burke, London


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