Vitrea
Appearance
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Apical and umbilical view of an oxidized shell of Vitrea vereae. The shell when fresh is glassy and transparent. | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
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Genus: | Vitrea |
Diversity[2] | |
at least 65 species | |
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Vitrea is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pristilomatidae.
According to the World Register of Marine Species this genus belongs in the family Zonitidae.[3]
Species
This genus contains more than 60 species, including the following:
subgenus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833
- Vitrea diaphana (Studer, 1820)
- Vitrea transsylvanica (Clessin, 1877)
subgenus Subrimatus A. J. Wagner, 1907
- Vitrea narbonensis (Clessin, 1877)
- Vitrea subrimata (Reinhardt, 1871)
subgenus Crystallus R. T. Lowe, 1854
- Vitrea contracta (Westerlund, 1871)
- Vitrea crystallina (O. F. Müller, 1774)
subgenus ?
- Vitrea garganoensis (E. Gittenberger & Eikenboom, 2006)
- Vitrea inae
- Vitrea nadejdae
- Vitrea pseudotrolli
- Vitrea striata
- Vitrea vereae Irikov, Georgiev & Riedel, 2004[4]
- and many others
References
- ^ Fitzinger L. I. (1833). "Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben". Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreich's unter der Enns 3: 88-122. Wien. p. 99.
- ^ "Species in genus Vitrea (n=65)". AnimalBase, accessed 8 November 2012.
- ^ Marshall, B. (2014). Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818629 on 2014-11-06
- ^ Irikov, A.; Georgiev, D.; Riedel, A. (2004). "A new species of the genus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833 from Bulgaria (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Zonitidae)". Folia Malacologica. 12 (2): 79–81.
External links
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- AnimalBase info at: [1]