Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Architaenioglossa > Superfamily Viviparoidea

Viviparidae J. E. Gray, 1847

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Viviparinae J. E. Gray, 1847

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: river snails sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Flussdeckelschnecken; Sumpfdeckelschnecken sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Swedish: sumpsnäckor

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847].
basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
additional source	Stelbrink, B., R. Richter, F. Köhler, F. Riedel, E.E. Strong, B. Van Bocxlaer, C. Albrecht, T. Hauffe, T.J. Page, D.C. Aldridge, A.E. Bogan, Li-Na Du, M.R. Manuel-Santos, R.M. Marwoto, A.A. Shirokaya & T. Von Rintelen. (2020). Global diversification dynamics since the Jurassic: Low dispersal and habitat-dependent evolution explain hotspots of diversity and shell disparity in River Snails (Viviparidae). Systematic Biology. 69(5): 944-961.
additional source	Van Bocxlaer B. & Strong E.E. (2019). Viviparidae Gray, 1847. Pp. 43-50, in: C. Lydeard & C.S. Cummings (eds), Freshwater mollusks of the world. A distribution atlas. 242 pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Viviparidae J. E. Gray, 1847. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154000

Ruud A. Bank. Viviparidae J. E. Gray, 1847. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/d19e05a4-fb0f-48a0-b3f9-91d5bb023ca5