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.
Viviparus contectus | |
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Shell of Viviparus contectus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Family: | Viviparidae |
Genus: | Viviparus |
Species: | V. contectus
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Binomial name | |
Viviparus contectus | |
Synonyms | |
Contectiana contecta (Millet, 1813) |
This is not a native of the UK. This species is palaearctic in distribution, specifically Europe and western Siberia, including:[3]
This large snail lives in slow flowing rivers and canals which are unpolluted, and which have hard water with many water weeds.[10]