Megalovalvata baicalensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.
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| Species: | M. baicalensis
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| Megalovalvata baicalensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859)[1]
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Paludina baicalensis Gerstfeldt, 1859 | |
Distribution
editThis species occurs in lake Baikal in depths from 3 to 50 m, and in the Angara River in Russia.[3]
The type locality is Lake Baikal ("Baikalsee").[3]
Habitat
editThis snail lives in freshwater habitats.
References
edit- ^ 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.