Viviparus contectus
| Viviparus contectus |
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| shell of Viviparus contectus |
| Conservation status |
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| Scientific classification |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Mollusca |
| Class: |
Gastropoda |
| (unranked): |
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
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| Superfamily: |
Viviparoidea |
| Family: |
Viviparidae |
| Subfamily: |
Viviparinae |
| Genus: |
Viviparus |
| Species: |
V. contectus |
| Binomial name |
Viviparus contectus
(Millet, 1813)[2] |
| Synonyms |
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Contectiana contecta (Millet, 1813)
Cyclostoma contectum (Millet, 1813)
Cyclostoma viviparum Draparnaud, 1801
Helix vivipara Linnaeus, 1758
Nerita vivipara O. F. Müller, 1774
Paludina contecta Moquin-Tandon, 1855
Paludina contecta Millet, 1813
Paludina fasciata (Stein, 1850)
Paludina listeri Forbes et Hanley, 1853
Paludina vivipara Lamarck, 1835
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Viviparus contectus, common name Lister's river snail, is a species of large, freshwater snail with an operculum and a gill, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.
Distribution
This species is palaearctic in distribution, specifically Europe and western Siberia.[3]
Habitat
This large snail lives in slow flowing rivers and canals which are unpolluted, and which have hard water with many water weeds.[9]
References
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 1 May 2007.
- ^ Millet, P. A. 1813: Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, observés dans le Département de Maine et Loire. - pp. j.xj [= 1-11], 1-82, 1 tableau. Angers. (Pavie), page 5.
- ^ (Slovak) Lisický M. J. 1991. Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
- ^ Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
- ^ (Dutch) Viviparus contectus — Anemoon
- ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 108, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- ^ http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/13.shtml
- ^ Janus, Horst. 1965. The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. Burke, London.
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