Valvata lewisi

Fringed valvata
Drawing: a lateral view of a shell of Valvata lewisi
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily: Valvatoidea
Family: Valvatidae
Genus: Valvata
Species: V. lewisi
Binomial name
Valvata lewisi
Currier, 1868

Valvata lewisi, common name the fringed valvata, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

Distribution

This species lives in North America.

References

  1. IUCN (2008). 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 November 2008.
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