| Valvata | |
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| a live Valvata piscinalis | |
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| Drawing: two views of a shell of Valvata cristata, the type species of the genus Valvata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Valvatidae |
| Genus: | Valvata O. F. Müller, 1773[1] |
| Type species | |
| Valvata cristata O. F. Müller, 1774
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Valvata is a genus of very small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.[2]
- ^ Müller O. F. (1773). Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Voluminis Imi pars Ima., pp. [1-33], 1-135. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2014). Valvata O. F. Müller, 1774. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153994 on 2014-11-15