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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Genus: | Viviparus |
| Species: | V. contectus
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| Binomial name | |
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Contectiana contecta (Millet, 1813) | |
Distribution
editThis is not a native of the UK. 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
editThis large snail lives in slow flowing rivers and canals which are unpolluted, and which have hard water with many water weeds.[10]
References
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- ^ (in Dutch) Viviparus contectus — Anemoon
- ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 108, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- ^ 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".
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Unknown".[permanent dead link]
- ^ Janus, Horst. (1965). The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. Burke, London.