Valvata tricarinata

Valvata tricarinata, common name the three-ridge valvata or threeridge valvata, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.

Valvata tricarinata
Drawing: apertural view of shell of Valvata tricarinata
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Valvatidae
Genus:	Valvata
Species:	V. tricarinata
Binomial name
Valvata tricarinata Say, 1817
Synonyms
Cyclostoma tricarinata Say, 1817 (original combination)

Distribution

This species occurs in North America.

Shell description

There is great variation in the degree of carination of the shell.^[2]

Paleontology

Valvata tricarinata is abundant in nearly all lacustrine and fluviatile deposits in North America of the Pleistocene period. The fossil shells are more variable than the Recent ones.^[2] Eight forms or subspecies were described.^[2]