Vitrina

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Vitrina
Vitrina pellucida by Jewitt.jpg
An engraving of Vitrina pellucida by Orlando Jewitt from his 1863 book The land and freshwater mollusks indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British Isles
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Limacoidea
Family: Vitrinidae
Subfamily: Vitrininae
Genus: Vitrina
Draparnaud, 1801
Type species
Cythara metriaDall, 1903
Synonyms
  • CobresiaHübner, 1810
  • Glischrus (Hyalina)S. Studer, 1820 (non Schumacher, 1817)
  • HelicolimaxJ. B. Férussac, 1807
  • Helix (Hyalina)S. Studer, 1820 (junior objective synonym)
  • HyalinaS. Studer, 1820 junior homonym (non Schumacher, 1817)
  • PaganaGistel, 1848
  • Vitrina (Vitrina)Draparnaud, 1801
  • Zonites (Hyalina)Studer, 1820

Vitrina is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails. [1]

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Description

The shell is globular. There is no apertural membrane. The mantle lobe is very small. There is no penial appendix, no vagina, which means that penis, oviduct and spermatheca duct join at a common point. [2]

These are closely allied species, in which the internal organization is in many cases more distinctive than the external aspect of the shell. [3]

Distribution

These species occur in North America, Greenland, Europe and northern Asia.

Species

Species with the genus Vitrina include:

Synonyms
Taxa inquirenda

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References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=875675 on 2023-06-15
  2. AnimalBase: Vitrina
  3. Monograph of theland and freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles; Part XII. pp. 1—16, published June 15, 1906.
  4. Delaunay, Journ. de Conch , xxv., p. 363, pl. 11, f. 5.

Studer, S. (1820). Kurzes Verzeichnis der bis jetzt in unserm Vaterlande entdeckten Conchylien. Naturwissenschaftlicher Anzeiger der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 3 (11): 83–90; (12): 91–94. Bern