Viviparus contectus | |
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Shell of Viviparus contectus | |
Conservation status | |
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific 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) |
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:
- Great Britain, specifically eastern England
- Netherlands
- Germany - endangered (3 gefährdet)
- Austria
- Czech Republic - near threatened (NT)
- Slovakia
- Russia - Sverdlovsk oblast
Habitat
This large snail lives in slow flowing rivers and canals which are unpolluted, and which have hard water with many water weeds.
References
- 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.
- 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.
- (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska . VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- (in Dutch) Viviparus contectus — Anemoon
- Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 108, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- 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".
- ^ (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.
- "Unknown".
- Janus, Horst. (1965). The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. Burke, London.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Viviparus contectus |
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