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  Superfamily Viviparoidea

Family Viviparidae

    Subfamily Lioplacinae -- Wisconsin!
    Subfamily Viviparinae -- Wisconsin!
    Subfamily Bellamyinae -- North America.

Taxon Information

The Family Viviparidae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Viviparidae, "4 Genera, 21 species" [North America] (Johnson et al., 2013).
• Viviparidae, "Throughout the United States and Canada" (Brown & Lydeard, 2010).
• Viviparidae, [Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian, Pacific; "125-150 described species" worldwide, 27 Nearctic species] (Strong et al., 2008).
• Viviparidae, [North America] (Smith, 2001).
• Viviparidae, (Clench, 1959).
• Viviparidae, [Wisconsin] (Baker, 1928).

Bibliography

• Johnson, P.D., A.E. Bogan, K.M. Brown, N.M. Burkhead, J.R. Cordeiro, J.T. Garner, P.D. Hartfield, D.A.W. Lepitzki, G.L. Mackie, E. Pip, T.A. Tarpley, J.S. Tiemann, N.V. Whelan & E.E. Strong. 2013. Conservation Status of Freshwater Gastropods of Canada and the United States. Fisheries 38(6): 247-282.
• Brown, K.M. & C. Lydeard. 2010. Mollusca: Gastropoda. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 277-307.
• Strong, E.E., O. Gargominy, W.F. Ponder & P. Bouchet. 2008. Global diversity of gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Mollusca (Gastropods, pelecypods). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 327-400.
• Clench, W.J. & S.L.H. Fuller. 1965. The genus Viviparus (Viviparidae) in North America. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 2(32): 385-412. [Available online]
• Clench, W.J. 1962. A catalogue of the Viviparidae of North America with notes on the distribution of Viviparus georgianus Lea. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 2(27): 261-287. [Available online]
• Clench, W.J. 1959. Mollusca. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 1117-1160.
• Baker, F.C. 1928. The fresh water Mollusca of Wisconsin. Part I. Gastropoda. Bulletin of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey 70(1): i-xx, 1-507.

Web Pages

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Wikipedia
• World Register of Marine Species