Viviparus contectus

Taxobox
name = "Viviparus contectus"


image_caption = "Viviparus contectus"
image_width = 225px
status = NE
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
ordo = Architaenioglossa
superfamilia = Ampullarioidea
familia = Viviparidae
genus = "Viviparus"
species = "V. contectus"
binomial = "Viviparus contectus"
binomial_authority = (Millet, 1813) [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.]
synonyms = "Contectiana contecta" (Millet, 1813)
"Cyclostoma contectum" (Millet, 1813)
"Cyclostoma viviparum" Draparnaud, 1801
"Helix vivipara" Linnaeus, 1758
"Nerita vivipara" O. F. Müller, 1774
"Paludina contecta" Moquin-Tandon, 1855
"Paludina contecta" Millet, 1813
"Paludina fasciata" (Stein, 1850)
"Paludina listeri" Forbes et Hanley, 1853
"Paludina vivipara" Lamarck, 1835

"Viviparus contectus", common name Lister's river snail, is a species of large, freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.

Distribution

This species is palaearctic in distribution, specifically Europe and western Siberia.

Habitat

This large snail lives in slow flowing rivers and canals which are unpolluted, and which have hard water and many water weeds.

Conservation status and list of countries

* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 1 May 2007.]

* Czech Republic - near threatened (NT) [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 http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm]
* Netherlands [nl icon [http://www.anemoon.org/anm/voorlopige-kaarten/kaarten-per-soort/zoetwatermollusken/wetenschappelijk/viviparus-contectus/ Viviparus contectus — Anemoon ] ]
* Germany - endangered ("3 gefährdet") [Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 108, ISBN 3-923376-02-2]
* Russia - Sverdlovsk oblast [http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/13.shtml]
* Slovakia
* the British Isles, specifically eastern England
* ...

References

* Janus, Horst, 1965."The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs", Burke, London

External links

* [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/List_AquireAll.jsp?Species=11101&Effect=PAN Pesticides Database - Chemical Toxicity Studies]