Valvata cristata is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.
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| Five views of a shell of Valvata cristata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Valvatidae |
| Genus: | Valvata |
| Species: | V. cristata
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| Binomial name | |
| Valvata cristata O. F. Müller, 1774[1]
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Distribution
edit- Czech Republic - Bohemia and Moravia[2]
- Slovakia[2]
- Poland
- Germany - (Arten der Vorwarnliste)[3]
- Netherlands
- the British Isles: Great Britain and Ireland
- Hungary
- Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia[4]
- and other areas
Shell description
editThe shell of this exceeding small (2–4 mm) Valvata species is very flat in its coiling, and therefore it somewhat resembles a Planorbis shell. However, the shell is dextral in coiling and has an operculum.[5] The shell is transparent, has 3-3.5 whorls in a circular aperture. The umbilicus is wide and open, more than 1/3 of shell diameter.
Ecology
editThis species lives in stagnant and slow-moving water.
Myzyk (2002)[6] described life cycle of Valvata cristata.
References
edit- ^ Müller O. F. (1774). Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).
- ^ a b (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
- ^ (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 106, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- ^ Filippenko D. (2011). "Fauna of gastropod molluscs in the Curonian Lagoon littoral biotopes (Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad region, Russia)". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 10: 79–83. PDF.
- ^ Janus, Horst (1965). ‘’The young specialist looks at land and freshwater molluscs’’, Burke, London
- ^ Myzyk S. (2002). "Life cycle of Valvata cristata O. F. Müller, 1774 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) in the laboratory". Folia Malacologica 10(2): 47-75. PDF.
External links
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