Viviparus contectus 

Viviparus contectus
Viviparus contectus
Viviparus contectus
Conservation status
NE
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Viviparus
Species: V. contectus
Binomial name
Viviparus contectus
(Millet, 1813)1
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 gills, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.

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Distribution

This species is palaearctic in distribution, specifically Europe and western Siberia.

Habitat

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

Conservation status and list of countries

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 1 May 2007.
  3. ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
  4. ^ Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
  5. ^ (Dutch) Viviparus contectus — Anemoon
  6. ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 108, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
  7. ^ http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/13.shtml
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