Viviparus contectus
| Viviparus contectus | |
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| Shell of Viviparus contectus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Viviparoidea |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Subfamily: | Viviparinae |
| Genus: | Viviparus |
| Species: | V. contectus |
| Binomial name | |
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Viviparus contectus (Millet, 1813) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Contectiana contecta (Millet, 1813) |
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informal group Architaenioglossa
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.
This species is palaearctic in distribution, specifically Europe and western Siberia, including:
This large snail lives in slow flowing rivers and canals which are unpolluted, and which have hard water with many water weeds.
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