Vallonia pulchella
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| Vallonia pulchella | |
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| Vallonia pulchella | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Valloniidae |
| Genus: | Vallonia |
| Species: | V. pulchella |
| Binomial name | |
| Vallonia pulchella (O. F. Müller, 1774)[1] |
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Vallonia pulchella, common name the lovely vallonia, is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Valloniidae.
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[edit] Distribution
This species occurs in countries and islands including:
Europe:
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Czech Republic[2]
- Slovakia[2]
- Poland
- Germany[3]
- Netherlands[4]
- Latvia
- and other areas
America:
- British Columbia[5] in Canada
- Illinois[6] in the United States of America
- Brazil
[edit] Life habits
The size of the egg is 0.5 mm.[7]
In this species some parental care was observed: apparently the eggs were cleaned of fungi.[7] Parental care is very rare in gastropods in general and has otherwise been observed only in the genus Libera.
[edit] References
- ^ Müller O. F. 1774. Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniæ & Lipsiæ. (Heineck & Faber).
- ^ a b (Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
- ^ Vallonia pulchella (O. F. Müller 1774) - Glatte Grasschnecke. Accessed 26 April 2009.
- ^ Vallonia pulchella. Stichting ANEMOON, Accessed 26 April 2009.
- ^ Robert G. Forsyth. Terrestrial Gastropods of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia Family Valloniidae. Accessed 25 April 2009.
- ^ Coppolino M.L. 2009. Land Snails of Southern Illinois. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA. Last updated 31 January 2009, accessed 25 April 2009.
- ^ a b Heller J.: Life History Strategies. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 419-420 and page 426.
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