Viviparus contectus
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Genus: | Viviparus |
| Species: | V. contectus |
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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
[edit]This is not a native of the UK. This species is palaearctic in distribution, specifically Europe and western Siberia, including:[3]
- Great Britain, specifically eastern England
- Netherlands[4]
- Germany - endangered (3 gefährdet)[5]
- Austria
- Czech Republic - near threatened (NT)[6][7][8]
- Slovakia[8]
- Russia - Sverdlovsk oblast[9]
Habitat
[edit]This large snail lives in slow flowing rivers and canals which are unpolluted, and which have hard water with many water weeds.[10]
References
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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs] (in Slovak). Bratislava: VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied.
- ↑ "Viviparus contectus". Anemoon (in Dutch).
- ↑ 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".
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ "Unknown".[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Janus, Horst (1965). The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. London: Burke.