Viviparus contectus
Species of gastropod
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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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| Shell of Viviparus contectus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Genus: | Viviparus |
| Species: | V. contectus |
| Binomial name | |
| Viviparus contectus | |
| Synonyms | |
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Contectiana contecta (Millet, 1813) | |
Distribution
This 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
This large snail lives in slow flowing rivers and canals which are unpolluted, and which have hard water with many water weeds.[10]
