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Species of gastropod

Viviparus contectus
Shell of Viviparus contectus
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Viviparus
Species: V. contectus
Binomial name
Viviparus contectus
(Millet, 1813)
Synonyms

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

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 is not a native of the UK. This species is palaearctic in distribution, specifically Europe and western Siberia, including:

Habitat

This large snail lives in slow flowing rivers and canals which are unpolluted, and which have hard water with many water weeds.

References

  1. Van Damme D., Kebapçı U. & Seddon M. (2012). "Viviparus contectus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 August 2014.
  2. Millet, P. A. 1813: Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, observés dans le Département de Maine et Loire. - pp. j.xj , 1-82, 1 tableau. Angers. (Pavie), page 5.
  3. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska . VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  4. (in Dutch) Viviparus contectus — Anemoon
  5. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 108, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
  6. Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001): "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
  7. "Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic".
  8. ^ (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. ". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
  9. "Unknown".
  10. Janus, Horst. (1965). The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. Burke, London.
Taxon identifiers
Viviparus contectus
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