Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: "Lower Heterobranchia"
Superfamilia: Valvatoidea
Familia: Valvatidae
Genera (5 + 3†): Biwakovalvata – Borysthenia – Megalovalvata – Pseudomegalovalvata – Valvata – †Amplovalvata – †Ariomphalus – †Microcyclas
Name
Valvatidae Gray, 1840
References
Gray, G.R. 1840. A list of the genera of birds, with an indication of the typical species of each genus, compiled from various sources. 80 pp. Richard and John Taylor (London). BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.13777 Reference page.
Haszprunar, G. 2014: A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Valvatidae (Gastropoda, Ectobranchia). ZooKeys 377: 1–172. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.377.6032 Reference page.
Vinarski, M.V., Palatov, D.M. & Marinskiy, V.V. 2017. Checklist of the freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Mongolia. Zootaxa 4317(1): 44–78. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.1.2 Reference page.
Links
Valvatidae in the World Register of Marine Species
Valvatidae, the valve snails, is a taxonomic family of very small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks.
Taxonomy
The family Valvatidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera
The type genus of this family is Valvata O.F. Müller, 1774.
Genera in the family Valvatidae include:
Andrussovia Brusina, 1903
Borysthenia Lindholm, 1933
Costovalvata Polinski, 1932
Liratina Lindholm, 1906[citation needed]
Megalovalvata Lindholm, 1906
Valvata Müller, 1774
Cincinna Hübner, 1810 - It is recognized either as genus[3] of a subgenus of Valvata.
Ecology
Snails in the family Valvatidae are useful for measuring water quality as biological indicators. According to the Biological monitoring working party they have a score of 3, which means that they have quite a high tolerance to pollutants.[citation needed]
References
Gray J. E. (1840). A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands by W. Tyrton. page 79.
Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
(in Russian) Anistratenko O., Degtyarenko E., Anistratenko V. (2010). "Сравнительная морфология раковины и радулы брюхоногих моллюсков семейства Valvatidae из Северного Причерноморья. [Shell and radula comparative morphology of the Gastropod Molluscs family Valvatidae from the North Black Sea coast]". Ruthenica 20(2): 91-101. PDF
Haszprunar G (2014) A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Valvatidae (Gastropoda, Ectobranchia). ZooKeys 377: 1-172. https://www.pensoft.net/J_FILES/1/articles/6032/6032-G-3-layout.pdf
Further reading
Hannibal H. (1910). Valvatidae of the Western North America. The Nautilus, page 104-107.
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