basis of recordVinarski, M. V.; Kantor, Yu. I. (2016). Analytical catalogue of fresh and brackish water molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 544 pp. page(s): 281 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceSitnikova, T. Ya. (1983). The system of endemic species of the genus <i>Megalovalvata</i> and some questions of taxonomy of the family Valvatidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia). <em>Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal.</em> 62 (1): 32–44. [in Russian, English summary]. page(s): 37, fig. 2(2) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceSitnikova T.Ya. (1994). Gastropods of Baikal Lake. The family Valvatidae. <em>Ruthenica, Russian Malacological Journal.</em> 4: 85–98. page(s): 88, fig. 10 C [details] Available for editors [request]
status sourceSitnikova, T. Y. (2018). Review of Valvatidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) endemic to Lake Baikal, with taxonomic and morphological notes. <em>Archiv für Molluskenkunde.</em> 147(2): 181-201., available online athttps://doi.org/10.1127/arch.moll/147/181-201 page(s): 193, figs. 6G, 8G, 9A–F, H [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Distribution Widely distributed in the littoral zone of Lake Baikal where it lives on sandy and sandy-stony
sediments at depths of 3–50 m. [details] Lectotype Designated by Sitnikova [1983: 37] [details] Type locality Russia, Lake Baikal, Berkhin Bay, on sandy bottom, 53 m depth [details]