VIVIPARUS VIVIPARUS
Scientific Name: Viviparus viviparus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Name: River Snail
Origin: Europe
Family: Viviparidae
Sous-family: Viviparinae
Size: 3 to 4 cm
Breething: aerial through lungs
Temperature: 0 to 25°C
Utility: ...
Remark: does not eat plants
Particularity: ovoviviparous
this snail shell is yellowish green with three clear brown stripes. It lives in average debit water streams and rivers. It resembles Ampullariidae in many aspects but pertains to another family.
Nowadays it is distributed in various areas of the gobe, namely North America.
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