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Valvatidae

Order

Heterostropha

Family

Valvatidae

The species from this genus that we find has relatively low spires. All members of the genus are right-handed snails and have a spiral opercular pattern. Valvata tricarinata have three prominent ridges that are absent from the also very common V. piscinalis (the right most snail in the image of the genus). Click here to see the low spires, and the three prominent ridges