| Chinese mystery snail | |
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| A live individual out of water | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Genus: | Cipangopaludina |
| Species: | C. chinensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Cipangopaludina chinensis (Gray, 1834)
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The Chinese mystery snail, black snail, or trapdoor snail (Cipangopaludina chinensis), is a large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.[3][4] The Japanese variety of this species is black and usually a dark green, moss-like alga covers the shell.[citation needed]
The name "trapdoor snail" refers the operculum, an oval corneous plate that most snails in this clade possess. When the soft parts of the snail are fully retracted, the operculum seals the aperture of the shell, providing some protection against drying out and predation.[citation needed]
- ^ Köhler F., Do V. & Jinghua F. (2012). "Cipangopaludina chinensis". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 March 2013.
- ^ "Aquatic Invasive Species: Chinese Mystery Snail". Indiana/US Department of Natural Resources, Division of Fish and Wildlife. Archived from the original on 2007-08-29. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
- ^ Solomon C. T., Olden J. D., Johnson P. T. J., Dillon R. T. & Vander Zanden M. J. (2010). "Distribution and community-level effects of the Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis) in northern Wisconsin lakes". Biological Invasions 12: 1591-1605. PDF Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Cipangopaludina chinensis (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)". www.molluscabase.org. MolluscaBase. Retrieved 15 December 2018.