Valvata virens

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Valvata virens
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily: Valvatoidea
Family: Valvatidae
Genus: Valvata
Species: V. virens
Binomial name
Valvata virens
Tryon, 1863

Valvata virens, common name the emerald valvata, is a species of small freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae.

This species is endemic to the United States.

The operculum of Valvata virens

References

  1. Bogan, A.E. 1996. Valvata virens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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