Viviparus contectus

Viviparus contectus
	Shell of Viviparus contectus
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Viviparoidea
Family:	Viviparidae
Subfamily:	Viviparinae
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 species is palaearctic in distribution, specifically Europe and western Siberia, including:[3]

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

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(in Dutch) Viviparus contectus — Anemoon
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(in Czech) 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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