Viviparus acerosus

Viviparus acerosus
shells of Viviparus acerosus
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa

Superfamily: Viviparoidea
Family: Viviparidae
Subfamily: Viviparinae
Genus: Viviparus
Species: V. acerosus
Binomial name
Viviparus acerosus
(Bourguignat, 1862)[2]

Viviparus acerosus is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Danubian.[3]

It is found in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic - in Moravia only, Germany, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.

Its non-indigenous distribution include the Netherlands since 2007.[4]

References

  1. ^ Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Viviparus acerosus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ^ Bourguignat J. R. 1862. Descriptions des paludinées de l'Algérie, des Vivipara d'Europe et de deux espèces nouvelles de la famille des paludinées. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée (2) 14: 93-118, Pl. 5. Paris, page 115, Pl. 5 Fig. 5-6
  3. ^ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. 1991. Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  4. ^ D. Menno Soes, Peter Glöer & Anton J. de Winter. 2009. Viviparus acerosus (Bourguignat, 1862) (Gastropoda: Viviparidae), a new exotic snail species for the Dutch fauna. Aquatic Invasions, Volume 4, Issue 2: 373-375, DOI 10.3391/ai.2009.4.2.12.