Viviparus contectus

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.

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

Distribution

This species is palaearctic in distribution, specifically Europe and western Siberia, including:[3]

• Great Britain, specifically eastern England
• Netherlands[4]
• Germany - endangered (3 gefährdet)[5]
• Austria
• Czech Republic - near threatened (NT)[6][7][8]
• Slovakia[8]
• Russia - Sverdlovsk oblast[9]

Habitat

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

References

1. Van Damme D., Kebapçı U. & Seddon M. (2012). "Viviparus contectus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 August 2014.
2. Millet, P. A. 1813: Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, observés dans le Département de Maine et Loire. - pp. j.xj [= 1-11], 1-82, 1 tableau. Angers. (Pavie), page 5.
3. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
4. (in Dutch) Viviparus contectus — Anemoon
5. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 108, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
6. Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001): "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
7. Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
8. (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.
9. http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/13.shtml
10. Janus, Horst. (1965). The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. Burke, London.

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