Valvata lewisi

Fringed valvata
	Drawing: a lateral view of a shell of Valvata lewisi
Conservation status
	NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily:	Valvatoidea
Family:	Valvatidae
Genus:	Valvata
Species:	V. lewisi
Binomial name
	Valvata lewisi; Currier, 1868

Valvata lewisi, common name the fringed valvata, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

Distribution

This species lives in North America.

IUCN (2008). 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 November 2008.

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