Viviparus acerosus

Viviparus acerosus is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

Viviparus acerosus
Five shells of Viviparus acerosus
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Viviparidae
Genus:	Viviparus
Species:	V. acerosus
Binomial name
Viviparus acerosus (Bourguignat, 1862)[2]

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Danubian.^[3]

It is found in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (in Moravia only),^[4] Slovakia,^[4] Germany, Hungary and Romania.

Its non-indigenous distribution includes the Netherlands since 2007.^[5]

References

1. Vavrova, L.; Van Damme, D. (2011). "Viviparus acerosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T23040A9408473. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T23040A9408473.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
2. Bourguignat J. R. (1862). "Descriptions des paludinées de l'Algérie, des Vivipara d'Europe et de deux espèces nouvelles de la famille des paludinées". Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée (2)14: 93-118, Pl. 5. Paris, page 115, Pl. 5 Fig. 5-6
3. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
4. (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.
5. Menno Soes D., Glöer P. & de Winter A. J. (2009). "Viviparus acerosus (Bourguignat, 1862) (Gastropoda: Viviparidae), a new exotic snail species for the Dutch fauna" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. Aquatic Invasions 4(2): 373-375, doi:10.3391/ai.2009.4.2.12.