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Viviparus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Gastropoda
    Subclass:  
Prosobranchia
    Order:  
Caenogastropoda
    Superfamily:  
Cyclophoracea
    Family:  
Viviparidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Viviparus MONTFORT, 1810
    Type Species:  
V. fluviorum (= Helix vivipara LINNÉ, 1758)


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Synonyms

Paludina


Geographic Distribution

cosmop.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Jur.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Hettangian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
201.36
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Rec.
    Ending International Stage:  
Meghalayan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
0


Description

Medium-sized, mostly with smooth, convex whorls, but some species with carinate or nodosely carinate whorls. [A record from the Lower Carboniferous of England was based on an internal mold, perhaps of a marine shell, and needs confirmation before acceptance.]




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