Biology:Viviparus contectus

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Viviparus contectus
Shell of Viviparus contectus
Scientific classification edit
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]

  • 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

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

References

  1. ↑ Kebapçı, U.; Seddon, M.B.; Van Damme, D. (2014). "Viviparus contectus" (in en). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T155717A42430987.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/155717/42430987. 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. Bratislava: VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied. https://archive.org/details/MolluscaSlovenska. 
  4. ↑ "Viviparus contectus". http://www.anemoon.org/anm/voorlopige-kaarten/kaarten-per-soort/zoetwatermollusken/wetenschappelijk/viviparus-contectus/. 
  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". http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 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. doi:10.5817/MaB2010-9-s1-v2. http://mollusca.sav.sk/pdf/9/Suppl-1-v2.pdf. 
  9. ↑ "Unknown". http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/13.shtml. 
  10. ↑ Janus, Horst (1965). The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. London: Burke. 

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