Megalovalvata baicalensis

Megalovalvata baicalensis
not evaluated[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily: Valvatoidea
Family: Valvatidae
Genus: Megalovalvata
Species: M. baicalensis
Binomial name
Megalovalvata baicalensis
(Gerstfeldt, 1859)[2]
Synonyms[3]

Paludina baicalensis Gerstfeldt, 1859
Valvata grubii W. Dybowski, 1875[4]

Megalovalvata baicalensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

Distribution

This species occurs in lake Baikal in depths from 3 to 50 m, and in the Angara River in Russia.[3]

The type locality is Lake Baikal ("Baikalsee").[3]

Habitat

This snail lives in freshwater habitats.

References

  1. IUCN (2013). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 May 2014.
  2. Gerstfeldt G. (1859). "Ueber Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken Sibiriens und Amur-Gebietes". Mémoires des Savants étrangers 9: 507-548. page 510, plate 9, figs 8-10.
  3. 1 2 3 Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.
  4. Dybowski W. (1875). "Die Gastropoden-Fauna des Baikal-Sees, anatomisch und systematisch bearbeitet". Mémories de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg 22(8): 73 pp.
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