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.
Distribution
This is not a native of the UK. This species is palaearctic in distribution, specifically Europe and western Siberia, including:[3]
Habitat
This 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. . Downloaded on 04 August 2014.
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^ 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.
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^ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
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^ (in Dutch) Viviparus contectus — Anemoon
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^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 108, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
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^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001): "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
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^ Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
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^ 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.
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^ http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/13.shtml
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^ Janus, Horst. (1965). The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs. Burke, London.
