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Family Viviparidae



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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Viviparidae
Members of this Family

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Bellamya sp., from Australia. In the Viviparidae (so named because they give birth to small young snails rather than laying eggs), males lack a normal penis, but instead use a modified right tentacle, which is stouter and usually shorter than the normal left tentacle.

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