Megalovalvata baicalensis

Megalovalvata baicalensis
Conservation status
	not evaluated
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily:	Valvatoidea
Family:	Valvatidae
Genus:	Megalovalvata
Species:	M. baicalensis
Binomial name
	Megalovalvata baicalensis; (Gerstfeldt, 1859)
Synonyms
	Paludina baicalensis Gerstfeldt, 1859; Valvata grubii W. Dybowski, 1875

Megalovalvata baicalensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

Distribution

This species occurs in lake Baikal in depths from 3 to 50 m, and in the Angara River in Russia.^[4]

The type locality is Lake Baikal ("Baikalsee").^[4]

This snail lives in freshwater habitats.

^ IUCN (2013). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 May 2014.
^ Gerstfeldt G. (1859). "Ueber Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken Sibiriens und Amur-Gebietes". Mémoires des Savants étrangers 9: 507-548. page 510, plate 9, figs 8-10.
^ Dybowski W. (1875). "Die Gastropoden-Fauna des Baikal-Sees, anatomisch und systematisch bearbeitet". Mémories de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg 22(8): 73 pp.
^ ^a ^b ^c Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.

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