| Valvatidae | |
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| a live Valvata piscinalis | |
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| Drawing of apertural and umbilical views of a shell of Valvata cristata. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Valvatoidea |
| Family: | Valvatidae J. E. Gray, 1840[1] |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 71 freshwater species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Borystheniinae Starobogatov, 1983 | |
Valvatidae, the valve snails, is a taxonomic family of very small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks.
- ^ Gray J. E. (1840). A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands by W. Tyrton. page 79.
- ^ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.