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Wikipedia / Valvata

Valvata is a genus of very small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

Synonyms

  • Cincinna Hübner, 1810 · accepted, alternate representation (Cincinna is treated as subgenus of Valvata)

  • Cincinna (Atropidina) Lindholm, 1906 (subgenus-genus combination invalid; Atropidina is considered a junior synonym of Tropidina or Cincinna (depending on source); to avoid problems we refer to Valvata only)

  • Cincinna (Cincinna) Hübner, 1810 (Cincinna is treated as subgenus of Valvata)

  • Gyrorbis Fitzinger, 1833 (junior synonym (?))

  • Planorbis (Gyrorbis) Fitzinger, 1833 (junior synonym (?))

  • Valvata (Atropidina) Lindholm, 1906 (type species of Atropidina (Valvata pulchella Studer, 1789) is considered a junior synonym of V. (Cincinna) piscinalis; however, FE ranks Atropidina as synonym of Tropidina (type species: V. macrostoma Mörch, 1864); to avoid problems we refer to Valvata)

Species

Species in the genus: Valvata O.F. Müller, 1773 include:

(All the European species are included in this list.)

Subgenus † Valvata (Aphanotylus) Brusina, 1894

Subgenus: Cincinna Hübner, 1810

Valvata (Cincinna) piscinalis (O.F. Müller, 1774) - European stream valvata

Subgenus: Costovalvata Polinski, 1929

Subgenus: Ohridotropidina Hadžišce 1955

Subgenus: Tropidina H. &. A. Adams, 1854

Subgenus: Valvata O.F. Müller, 1773

Subgenus: ? (not know yet)

Subgenus: ? (not known for Wikipedians)

References

Bibliography

  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp.

  • in The Paleobiology Database