Viviparus contectus

Viviparus contectus
	Shell of Viviparus contectus
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Viviparidae
Genus:	Viviparus
Species:	V. contectus
Binomial name
	Viviparus contectus; (Millet, 1813)
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 is not a native of the UK. 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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^ 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.
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^ (in Dutch) Viviparus contectus — Anemoon
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^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001): "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
^ Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
^ ^a ^b (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.
^ http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/13.shtml
^ Janus, Horst. (1965). The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. Burke, London.