Viviparidae
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Viviparidae, sometimes known as the river snails or mystery snails, are a family of large aquatic gastropod mollusks, being some of the most widely distributed operculate freshwater snails.
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Viviparidae | |
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An alive but retracted individual of Viviparus contectus, showing the operculum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Superfamily: | Viviparoidea |
Family: | Viviparidae J. E. Gray, 1847[1] |
Diversity[2] | |
125–150 freshwater species |
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This family is classified in the informal group Architaenioglossa according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.