"Lubos R. Kolouch" wrote:
>
> Viviparus???
>
> > Hello everyone
> > Just got back from a great week in New York. Does anyone know the ID of
> > the
> > large, black, operculated freshwater snails that lurk in the lakes of
> > Central Park? -  Regards, Alex Menez

* They also lurk like living midnight tennis balls in the lakes of other
cities - dumped from aquaria I'm told:

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Field notes of Frederick W. Schueler

Cipangopaludina chinensis. 3/many shell, adult, specimen.
EOBM(MOLL)00802

Canada: Ontario: Ottawa-Carleton Region: Ottawa: Mud Lake viewing
platform. MAP:31G/5, UTM 18TVF 377 241.1.  45.36971N 75.79521W

1 October 2005 TIME: 1830ca.

COLLECTED BY: Jennifer Helene Schueler, Rory Tanner

HABITAT: small urban lake in White Pine-dominated forest park; 3
collected, largest 47 mm, many shells & living snails seen.
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Determined by: F.W.Schueler; Site accuracy: 25m waypoint; Coordinates
from: GPS:LL-WGS84,UTM-NAD27C/eTrex; EOBase entry: FWSOBS
FWS/2005Oct01/2019:43; source: FWS/biography/as entered/EOBase; record
last modified: FWS/2005Oct01/2024:43.
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Bishops Mills Natural History Centre
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