#4671 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Lister's River-snail
🇳🇱 Spitse moerasslak ·Viviparus contectus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Walter Wimmer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Micha Baum · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © tasty_y · CC0
- 4. © tasty_y · CC0
- 5. © Walter Wimmer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Degtyarev Nikolai Ivanovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Ivlev-Konstantin-Sergeevith · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Ivlev-Konstantin-Sergeevith · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Degtyarev Nikolai Ivanovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 22 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,076 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pierre-Aimé Millet in 1813 (213 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lister's River-snail
- Nederlands
- Spitse moerasslak
- scientific name
- Viviparus contectus
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Architaenioglossa
- family
- Viviparidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 22
- sightings in Europe
- 1,348
- sightings worldwide
- 2,076
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,714
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1813 by Pierre-Aimé Millet
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Viviparidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 151304, Wikidata Q937520, GBIF 5725684, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.