Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass "Lower Heterobranchia" > Superfamily Valvatoidea

Valvatidae Gray, 1840

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Borysthenia Lindholm, 1913
Valvata O. F. Müller, 1773

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

German: Federkiemenschnecken 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: kamgälsnäckor

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1840). A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands by W. Turton. A new edition. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. i-ix, 1-324, plates 1-12.
basis of record	Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.
additional source	Haszprunar, G. (2014). A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Valvatidae (Gastropoda, Ectobranchia). ZooKeys. 377: 1-172. Sofia [5 February].
additional source	Rath, E. (1988). Organization and Systematic Position of the Valvatidae. Malacological Review, 4: 194-204. Ann Arbor.
additional source	Sitnikova, T. Ya. (1983). The system of endemic species of the genus Megalovalvata and some questions of taxonomy of the family Valvatidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal. 62 (1): 32–44. [in Russian, English summary].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Valvatidae Gray, 1840. 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:153992

Ruud A. Bank. Valvatidae Gray, 1840. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/31dd60c9-1b8e-435c-90f7-78d07b1b60b3