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Viviparus contectus

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.

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Viviparus contectus
Shell of Viviparus contectus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Viviparus
Species:
V. contectus
Binomial name
Viviparus contectus
(Millet, 1813)2
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:3

Habitat

This large snail lives in slow flowing rivers and canals which are unpolluted, and which have hard water with many water weeds.10

References

References

  1. Kebapçı, U.; Seddon, M.B.; Van Damme, D. (2014). "Viviparus contectus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014 e.T155717A42430987. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T155717A42430987.en. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  2. Millet, P. A. 1813: Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, observés dans le Département de Maine et Loire. - pp. j.xj [= 1-11], 1-82, 1 tableau. Angers. (Pavie), page 5.
  3. Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs] (in Slovak). Bratislava: VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied.
  4. "Viviparus contectus". Anemoon (in Dutch).
  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. Horsák M.; Juřičková L.; Beran L.; Čejka T.; Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky" [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics] (PDF). Malacologica Bohemoslovaca (in Czech) (Suppl. 1): 1–37. doi:10.5817/MaB2010-9-s1-v2.
  9. "Unknown".
  10. Janus, Horst (1965). The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. London: Burke.