Valvata sibirica

Valvata sibirica
Three shells of Valvata sibirica
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. sibirica
Binomial name
Valvata sibirica
Middendorff, 1851[2]

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

Distribution

This species occurs in Russia.

Habitat

This snail lives in freshwater habitats.

References

  1. IUCN (2008). 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 November 2008.
  2. Middendorff, A. T. von. 1851. Mollusken. pp. [1], 163-464, Table. VIII-XXX [= 8-30], in: Brandt, F., Erichson, W. F., Fischer, S., Grube, E., Ménétriés, E. & Middendorff, A. T. von: Reise in den äussersten Norden und Osten Sibiriens während der Jahre 1843 und 1844. Volume II. Zoologie. Number 1. Wirbellose Thiere: Annulaten. Echinodermen. Insecten. Krebse. Mollusken. Parasiten. pp. 1-516, Tables I-XXXII [= 1-32]. St. Petersburg.

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