Valvata macrostoma
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| Valvata macrostoma | |
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| Five shells of Valvata macrostoma | |
| Conservation status | |
| NE[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal group Lower Heterobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Valvatoidea |
| Family: | Valvatidae |
| Genus: | Valvata |
| Subgenus: | Tropidina H. & A. Adams, 1854 |
| Species: | V. macrostoma |
| Binomial name | |
| Valvata macrostoma Mörch, 1864[2] | |
Drawing: two views of the shell of Valvata macrostoma
Valvata macrostoma is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.
Habitat
This freshwater snail lives in marshes and very small canals that have a very rich fauna and calcium-rich water.[3]
Distribution and conservation status
This species occurs in the following countries and islands:
- Czech Republic - in Bohemia only
- Slovakia
- Poland
- Germany - high endangered (Stark gefährdet)[4]
- Netherlands
- Great Britain
References
- ↑ (2006) IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 10 November 2007.
- ↑ Mörch O. A. L. (1864). "Fortegnelse over de i Danmark forekommende land- og ferskvandsblöddyr". Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn (2)1863(17-22): 265-367.
- ↑ Janus, Horst, (1965). ‘’The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs’’, Burke, London.
- ↑ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003). Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
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