Valvata tricarinata | |
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Drawing: apertural view of shell of Valvata tricarinata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Family: | Valvatidae |
Genus: | Valvata |
Species: | V. tricarinata |
Binomial name | |
Valvata tricarinata Say, 1817 | |
Synonyms | |
Cyclostoma tricarinataSay, 1817 (original combination) Contents |
Valvata tricarinata, common name the three-ridge valvata or threeridge 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.
This species occurs in North America.
There is great variation in the degree of carination of the shell. [2]
Valvata tricarinata is abundant in nearly all lacustrine and fluviatile deposits in North America of the Pleistocene period. The fossil shells are more variable than the Recent ones. [2] Eight forms or subspecies were described. [2]
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This article incorporates public domain text from the reference. [2]