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Shell of Viviparus contectus
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
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 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:

Great Britain, specifically eastern England
Netherlands
Germany - endangered (3 gefährdet)
Austria
Czech Republic - near threatened (NT)
Slovakia
Russia - Sverdlovsk oblast

Habitat

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

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