Viviparus
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Viviparus, commonly known as the river snails, is a genus of large, freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks.[2]
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Viviparus | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Viviparus contectus with operculum in place | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Superfamily: | Viviparoidea |
Family: | Viviparidae |
Genus: | Viviparus Montfort, 1810[1] |
Type species | |
Viviparus fluviorum Montfort, 1810 | |
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They are primitive members of the clade Caenogastropoda. The old name of the genus was Paludina.