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Valvata macrostoma

Valvata macrostoma
Valvata macrostoma 01.jpg
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.


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