Viviparus acerosus explained

Viviparus acerosus is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Danubian.^[1]

It is found in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (in Moravia only),^[2] Slovakia,^[2] Germany, Hungary and Romania.

Its non-indigenous distribution includes the Netherlands since 2007.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
2. Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
3. Menno Soes D., Glöer P. & de Winter A. J. (2009). "Viviparus acerosus (Bourguignat, 1862) (Gastropoda: Viviparidae), a new exotic snail species for the Dutch fauna" . Aquatic Invasions 4(2): 373-375, .