Rivularia (gastropod)
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| Rivularia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Subfamily: | Viviparinae |
| Genus: | Rivularia Heude, 1890 |
| Species: | R. auriculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Rivularia auriculata (E. von Martens, 1875) | |
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Rivularia is a monotypic genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae.[2][3] Species in this genus is distributed only along the Xiang River region of Hunan province, People's Republic of China.[3]
This genus was originally placed under the subfamily Bellamyinae of Viviparidae. In 2017, it was moved to Viviparinae based on anatomical and genetic data.[2][3]