Viviparus 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
This is not a native of the UK. This species is palaearctic in distribution, specifically Europe and western Siberia, including:[1]
- Great Britain, specifically eastern England
- Netherlands[2]
- Germany - endangered (3 gefährdet)[3]
- Austria
- Czech Republic - near threatened (NT)[4][5][6]
- Slovakia[6]
- Russia - Sverdlovsk oblast[7]
Habitat
This large snail lives in slow flowing rivers and canals which are unpolluted, and which have hard water with many water weeds.[8]
References
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- ↑ Template:In lang Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- ↑ Template:In lang Viviparus contectus — Anemoon
- ↑ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 108, Template:ISBN
- ↑ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001): "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
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- ↑ a b Template:In lang 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]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
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- ↑ Janus, Horst. (1965). The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. Burke, London.
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