Valvata macrostoma
| Valvata macrostoma | |
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| A shell of Valvata macrostoma | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal group Lower Heterobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Valvatoidea |
| Family: | Valvatidae |
| Genus: | Valvata |
| Subgenus: |
Tropidina H. & A. Adams, 1854 |
| Species: | V. macrostoma |
| Binomial name | |
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Valvata macrostoma Mörch, 1864 |
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Valvata macrostoma is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.
This species occurs in the following countries and islands:
This freshwater snail lives in marshes and very small canals that have a very rich fauna and calcium-rich water.
Myzyk (2004) described life cycle of Valvata macrostoma.
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