Contectiana contecta (Millet, 1813)Cyclostoma contectum (Millet, 1813)Cyclostoma viviparum Draparnaud, 1801Helix vivipara Linnaeus, 1758Nerita vivipara O. F. Müller, 1774Paludina contecta Moquin-Tandon, 1855Paludina contecta Millet, 1813Paludina fasciata (Stein, 1850)Paludina listeri Forbes et Hanley, 1853Paludina vivipara Lamarck, 1835 Viviparus contectus, common name Lister's river snail, is a species of large, freshwater snail with an operculum and a gill, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

This is not a native of the UK.

This species is palaearctic in distribution, specifically Europe and western Siberia, including:[3] This large snail lives in slow flowing rivers and canals which are unpolluted, and which have hard water with many water weeds.

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