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Valvata
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Valvata is a genus of very small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.[2]
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a live Valvata piscinalis | |
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Drawing: two views of a shell of Valvata cristata, the type species of the genus Valvata | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Family: | Valvatidae |
Genus: | Valvata O. F. Müller, 1773[1] |
Type species | |
Valvata cristata O. F. Müller, 1774 |
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