Viviparus diluvianus

Viviparus diluvianus
Temporal range: Pleistocene
A shell of Viviparus diluvianus from the type site in Berlin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Viviparoidea
Family: Viviparidae
Subfamily: Viviparinae
Genus: Viviparus
Species: †V. diluvianus
Binomial name
Viviparus diluvianus
(Kunth, 1865)[1]
Synonyms
  • Paludina diluviana Kunth, 1865
  • Paludina clactonensis S. Wood, 1872

†Viviparus diluvianus is an extinct species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

A shell of Viviparus diluvianus from the Netherlands.

Distribution

Type locality is near Berlin in Germany.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 (in German) Kunth A. 1865. Die losen Versteinerungen im Diluvium von Tempelhof bei Berlin. Zeitschrift der Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft, 17: 311-332.


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