basis of record
Johnson, P. D.; Bogan, A. E.; Brown, K. M.; Burkhead, N. M.; Cordeiro, J. R.; Garner, J. T.; Hartfield, P. D.; Lepitzki, D. A. W.; Mackie, G. L.; Tarpley, T. A.; Tiemann, J. S.; Whelan, N. V.; Strong, E. E. (2013). Conservation status of freshwater gastropods of Canada and the United States. <em>Fisheries.</em> 38(6): 247-282., available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03632415.2013.785396 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Synonymy Say (1817) considered Gmelin's Buccinum virginicum (misspellled as Buccinum virgineum) as "probably" the same species as his own newly introduced Lymnaea virginica. [details]