Valvata species from the North American Great Lakes region. The Valvatidae are a family of small aquatic prosobranch snails, characterized by a multispiral operculum, and an animal with a pallial tentacle and a protrusible bipectinate gill.

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Valvata
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John B. Burch, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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