Valvatidae, the valve snails, is a taxonomic family of very small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks.
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| a live Valvata piscinalis | |
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| Drawing of apertural and umbilical views of a shell of Valvata cristata. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Valvatoidea |
| Family: | Valvatidae J. E. Gray, 1840[1] |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 71 freshwater species | |
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Borystheniinae Starobogatov, 1983 | |
Taxonomy
editThe family Valvatidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera
editThe type genus of this family is Valvata O.F. Müller, 1774.
Genera in the family Valvatidae include:
- Andrussovia Brusina, 1903
- Borysthenia Lindholm, 1933
- Costovalvata Polinski, 1932
- Liratina Lindholm, 1906[citation needed]
- Megalovalvata Lindholm, 1906
- Valvata Müller, 1774
Ecology
editSnails in the family Valvatidae are useful for measuring water quality as biological indicators. According to the Biological monitoring working party they have a score of 3, which means that they have quite a high tolerance to pollutants.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Gray J. E. (1840). A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands by W. Tyrton. page 79.
- ^ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
- ^ (in Russian) Anistratenko O., Degtyarenko E., Anistratenko V. (2010). "Сравнительная морфология раковины и радулы брюхоногих моллюсков семейства Valvatidae из Северного Причерноморья. [Shell and radula comparative morphology of the Gastropod Molluscs family Valvatidae from the North Black Sea coast]". Ruthenica 20(2): 91-101. PDF
Haszprunar G (2014) A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Valvatidae (Gastropoda, Ectobranchia). ZooKeys 377: 1–172. https://www.pensoft.net/J_FILES/1/articles/6032/6032-G-3-layout.pdf
Further reading
edit- Hannibal H. (1910). Valvatidae of the Western North America. The Nautilus, page 104-107.