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(of Nerita piscinalis O. F. Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. vol 2: I-XXXVI, 1-214, 10 unnumbered pages. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Molleriana., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12893715
page(s): 172 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Valvata piscinalis (O. F. Müller, 1774). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153998 on 2025-02-06

Taxonomic edit history

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Rosenberg, Gary

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Bouchet, Philippe

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Rosenberg, Gary

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Neubauer, Thomas A.

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original description (of Nerita piscinalis O. F. Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. vol 2: I-XXXVI, 1-214, 10 unnumbered pages. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Molleriana., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12893715
page(s): 172 [details]

original description (of Valvata ambigua Westerlund, 1873) Westerlund, C. A. (1873). Fauna molluscorum terrestrium et fluviatilium Sveciæ, Norvegiæ et Daniæ. - Sveriges, Norges och Danmarks land- och sötvatten-mollusker. II. Sötvattenmollusker. [1-3], i-v, 297-651 pp. Stockholm: Bonnier. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13188948
page(s): 439 [details]

original description (of Valvata pulchella S. Studer, 1789) Studer, S. (1789). Faunula Helvetica. Class VI. Vermes. Ordo III. Testacea. - In: W. Coxe, Travels in Switzerland, in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq., Volume III: 384-392. London (T. Cadell in the Strand)., available online at https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN251818438
page(s): 391 [details]

original description (of Valvata (Cincinna) piscinalis var. ladogaensis Lindholm, 1912) Lindholm, W. A. (1912). Über Mollusken aus dem Ladogasee und der Nevabucht. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo muzeia Imperatorkoy Akademii Nauk. 16: 285–310.
page(s): 298 [details]

original description (of Turbo fontinalis Pulteney, 1799) Pulteney, R. (1799). Catalogue of the birds, shells, and some of the more rare plants of Dorsetshire. London, Nichols, 92 pp.
page(s): 45 [details]

original description (of Valvata sequanica Locard, 1884) Locard, A. (1884). Valvata sequanica, Locard, 1883. Bulletin de la Société des Amis des Sciences Naturelles de Rouen. (2) 19(1) [“1883”]: 206-208., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3085992&view=1up&seq=214 [details]

original description (of Valvata compressa Locard, 1889) Locard, A. (1889 [“1888”]). Contributions à la faune malacologique française. XV. Monographie des espèces françaises appartenant au genre Valvata. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. new ser., 35: 285-342, 1 table. Published simultaneously as a separatum under the same title, but with separate pagination: 1-62, 1 table. Paris (J.-B. Baillière) (1889)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54576469
page(s): 318 [details]

original description (of Valvata servaini Locard, 1889) Locard, A. (1889 [“1888”]). Contributions à la faune malacologique française. XV. Monographie des espèces françaises appartenant au genre Valvata. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. new ser., 35: 285-342, 1 table. Published simultaneously as a separatum under the same title, but with separate pagination: 1-62, 1 table. Paris (J.-B. Baillière) (1889)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54576469
page(s): 295 [details]

original description (of Valvata piscinalis var. acuminata Jeffreys, 1862) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 1: 73 [details]

original description (of Valvata piscinalis var. costulata Drouët, 1867) Drouët, H. (1867). Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la Côte-d'Or. Paris, Baillière et fils. 126 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13064901
page(s): 93 [details]

original description (of Helix fascicularis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3641 [details]

original description (of Valvata gallica Locard, 1889) Locard, A. (1889 [“1888”]). Contributions à la faune malacologique française. XV. Monographie des espèces françaises appartenant au genre Valvata. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. new ser., 35: 285-342, 1 table. Published simultaneously as a separatum under the same title, but with separate pagination: 1-62, 1 table. Paris (J.-B. Baillière) (1889)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54576469
page(s): 23-25 [details]

original description (of Valvata (Cincinna) piscinalis var. scharffi Westerlund, 1894) Westerlund, C. A. (1894). Specilegium Malacologicum. Neue Binnen-Conchylien aus der paläarktischen Region. V. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 26 (9/10): 163-177; 26 (11/12): 190-205. Frankfurt am Main [September/October; November/December]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15601574
page(s): 198 [details]

original description (of Nerita obtusa Studer, 1789) Studer, S. (1789). Faunula Helvetica. Class VI. Vermes. Ordo III. Testacea. - In: W. Coxe, Travels in Switzerland, in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq., Volume III: 384-392. London (T. Cadell in the Strand)., available online at https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN251818438
page(s): 391 [details]

original description (of Cyclostoma obtusum Draparnaud, 1801) Draparnaud, J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28587765
page(s): 39-40 [details]

original description (of Valvata (Tropidina) profunda Clessin, 1890) Clessin, S. (1887-1890). Die Mollusken-Fauna Mitteleuropa's. II. Teil. Die Molluskenfauna Oesterreich-Ungarns und der Schweiz, 858 pp. [part 1: 1-160 (1887); part 2: 161-320 (1887); part 3: 321-480 (1888); part 4: 481-624 (1889); part 5: 625-858 (1890)]. Nürnberg (Bauer & Raspe)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39745274
page(s): 776, fig. 509 [details]

original description (of Valvata (Cincinna) skorikovi Lindholm, 1912) Lindholm, W. A. (1912). Über Mollusken aus dem Ladogasee und der Nevabucht. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo muzeia Imperatorkoy Akademii Nauk. 16: 285–310.
page(s): 299–300 [details]

original description (of Valvata piscinalis var. submucronata A. Schmidt, 1856) Schmidt, A. (1856). Verzeichniss der Binnenmollusken Norddeutschlands mit kritischen Bemerkungen. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. 8: 120-169., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33004229
page(s): 160 [details]

original description (of Valvata piscinalis var. subnaticina Piaget, 1913) Piaget J. (1913). Supplément au catalogue des mollusques du Canton de Neuchâtel. Bulletin de la Société neuchâtelloise des sciences naturelles. 39: 74–89.
page(s): 87, figs 6, 9 [details]

basis of record Ziegelmeier, E. (1966). Die Schnecken (Gastropoda Prosobranchia) der deutsche Meeresgebiete und brackigen Küstengewässer [The Gastropoda Prosobranchia from the German seas and brackish coastal waters]. Helgol. Wiss. Meeresunters. 13: 1-66 [Subsequent publication] (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Biggs, H. E. J. (1971). Mollusca of the Iranian Plateau–III. Journal of Conchology. 27 (4): 211-220. London [29 April].
page(s): 212; note: As Valvata cf. piscinalis O. F. Mueller, 1774 [details]

additional source Nevill, G. (1878). Mollusca. Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission; based upon the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka Ph.D., 1-21, 1 pl. Calcutta (Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56816818
page(s): 12 [details]

additional source Folin, L. de. (1890). Observations sur Valvata cristata et V. piscinalis. Le Naturaliste. ser. 2, 4 (no. 76): 103-104., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6681386
page(s): 104 [details]

additional source Woodward, S. P. (1856). On the land and freshwater shells of Kashmir and Tibet, collected by Dr. T. Thomson. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 24: 185-187., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12860729
page(s): 186 [details]

additional source Latchford, F. R. (1914). Valvata piscinalis in Canada. The Nautilus. 28(1): 10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1750463 [details]

additional source Oughton, J. (1938). Valvata piscinalis (Müller) in the Great Lakes. The Nautilus. 52(1): 30-32; 52(2): 60-62., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8284530 [details]

additional source Robertson, I. C. (1945). Valvata piscinalis (Müller) in Lake Erie. The Nautilus. 59(1): 36., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8523529 [details]

additional source Harman, W. N. (1968). Valvata piscinalis in Cayuga Lake, N. Y. The Nautilus. 81(4): 143-144., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8528168 [details]

identification resource Rowson, B., Powell, H., Willing, M., Dobson, M. & Shaw, H. (2021). Freshwater Snails of Britain and Ireland. FSC Publications, Telford, UK.
page(s): 98. [details]

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Definitions

Language	Name
Dutch	vijverpluimdrager	[details]
English	large-mouthed valve snail [from synonym]	[details]
German	Niedergedrückte Federkiemenschnecke [from synonym]	[details]
Swedish	stor kamgälsnäcka	[details]