Viviparus Montfort 1810 (snail)

Gastropoda - Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae

Synonym: Vivipara Dupuy 1851

Parent taxon: Viviparinae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005

See also Oostingh 1935, Roth and Hartman 1998 and Tokaryk and Bryant 2004

Sister taxa: Kosovia, Paludina

Subtaxa: Viviparus arlingtonensis Viviparus aulacophorus Viviparus aurelianus Viviparus conradi Viviparus dezmanianus Viviparus hoernesi Viviparus javanicus Viviparus jingguensis Viviparus kochanskyae Viviparus loxostomus Viviparus marylandicus Viviparus suevicus

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Ecology: epifaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (1 collection), Greece (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Romania (1), United States (21: Florida)

• Blancan of United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Greece (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene of Croatia (4), Indonesia (8), Japan (1), Turkey (1)

• Miocene of Austria (1), Germany (4), India (1), Indonesia (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Turkey (1)

• Oligocene of Hungary (1), India (1)

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (2), United States (8: North Carolina, Texas, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of Canada (20: Alberta, Saskatchewan), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Utah)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Canada (1: Alberta)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Canada (6: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (2), France (2), India (1), Japan (10), Mexico (2), South Korea (1), Spain (1), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (18: Arizona, Maryland, Montana, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of China (2), France (1), Italy (1), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (6: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 159 collections including 173 occurrences

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