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  Subfamily Viviparinae

Genus Viviparus

    Species V. georgianus -- Wisconsin!
    Species V. intertextus -- Wisconsin!
    Species V. subpurpureus -- Wisconsin!
    Species V. goodrichi -- North America.
    Species V. limi -- North America.

Taxon Information

The Genus Viviparus 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

• Viviparus, [North America] (Johnson et al., 2013).
• Viviparus, [North America] (Brown & Lydeard, 2010).
• Viviparus, 3 species, plus possibly one exotic; eastern half of [United States] (Smith, 2001).
• Viviparus, [North Central United States] (Underhill et al., 1982).
• Viviparus, "Several species occur between the Atlantic states and the Mississippi Valley. They are rare north of Ill., Ohio, and N.Y." (Clench, 1959).
• Viviparus, [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.
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Mollusca (Gastropods, pelecypods). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 327-400.
• Underhill, J.C., W.D. Schmid & D.E. Gilbertson. 1982. Taxonomic Keys to the Common Animals of the North Central States, exclusive of the parasitic worms, terrestrial insects, and birds, 4th edition. 205 pp.
• 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