Valvatidae

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Valvatidae
a live Valvata piscinalis
Drawing of apertural and umbilical views of a shell of Valvata cristata.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superfamily: Valvatoidea
Family: Valvatidae
J. E. Gray, 1840[1]
Diversity[2]
71 freshwater species
Synonyms

Borystheniinae Starobogatov, 1983

Valvatidae, the valve snails, is a

mollusks
.

Taxonomy

The family Valvatidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Genera

The type genus of this family is Valvata O.F. Müller, 1774.

Genera in the family Valvatidae include:

Ecology

Snails in the family Valvatidae are useful for measuring

biological indicators. According to the Biological monitoring working party they have a score of 3, which means that they have quite a high tolerance to pollutants.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ Gray J. E. (1840). A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands by W. Tyrton. page 79.
  2. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6
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  3. ^ (in Russian) Anistratenko O., Degtyarenko E., Anistratenko V. (2010). "Сравнительная морфология раковины и радулы брюхоногих моллюсков семейства Valvatidae из Северного Причерноморья. [Shell and radula comparative morphology of the Gastropod Molluscs family Valvatidae from the North Black Sea coast]". Ruthenica 20(2): 91-101. PDF

Haszprunar G (2014) A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Valvatidae (Gastropoda, Ectobranchia). ZooKeys 377: 1–172. https://www.pensoft.net/J_FILES/1/articles/6032/6032-G-3-layout.pdf

Further reading

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Valvatidae.
  • Hannibal H. (1910). Valvatidae of the Western North America. The Nautilus, page 104-107.


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