Valvata macrostoma | |
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A shell of Valvata macrostoma | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal group Lower Heterobranchia |
Superfamily: | Valvatoidea |
Family: | Valvatidae |
Genus: | Valvata |
Subgenus: |
Tropidina H. & A. Adams, 1854 |
Species: | V. macrostoma |
Binomial name | |
Valvata macrostoma Mörch, 1864 |
Valvata macrostoma is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.
This species occurs in the following countries and islands:
This freshwater snail lives in marshes and very small canals that have a very rich fauna and calcium-rich water.
Myzyk (2004) described life cycle of Valvata macrostoma.