Valvata

Valvata
a live Valvata piscinalis
Drawing: two views of a shell of Valvata cristata, the type species of the genus Valvata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

informal group Lower Heterobranchia

Superfamily: Valvatoidea
Family: Valvatidae
Genus: Valvata
O. F. Müller, 1773[1]
Type species
Valvata cristata O. F. Müller, 1774.

Valvata is a genus of very small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.[2]

Synonyms

Species

Species in the genus: Valvata O.F. Müller, 1773 include:[3]

(All the European species are included in this list.)

Two views of the type specimen of Valvata oregonensis. Width: 8.0 mm, height: 5.0 mm.
Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. Müller O. F. (1773). Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Voluminis Imi pars Ima., pp. [1-33], 1-135. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).
  2. Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2014). Valvata O. F. Müller, 1774. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153994 on 2014-11-15
  3. ITIS report for Valvata. Accessed 19 November 2008.
  4. Teng-Chien Yen. 1946. Late Tertiary Fresh-Water Mollusks from Southeastern Idaho. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 20, No. 5 (Sep., 1946), pp. 485-494
  5. Hanna G. D. (August) 1922. Fossil Freshwater Mollusks from Oregon Contained in the Condon Myuseum of the University of Oregon. Volume I, number 12. page 11-12, plate 3. plate 4, figures 1-4.
  6. Pierce H. G. 1993. The Nonmarine Mollusks of the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene Cabbage Patch Fauna of Western Montana III. Aquatic Mollusks and Conclusions. Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 67, No. 6 (Nov., 1993), pp. 980-993.
  7. Parodiz J. J. (July) 1961. Notes on Valvatidae from early Tertiary of South America, with a new species. The Nautilus, volume 75(1). pages 16-19.

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