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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| 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 | |
Scientific classification 
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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 metria Dall, 1903 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Description edit
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 edit
These species occur in North America, Greenland, Europe and northern Asia.
Species edit
Species with the genus Vitrina include:
- Vitrina angelicae Beck, 1837
- Vitrina baudoni Delaunay, 1877 [4]
- Vitrina exilis Morelet, 1858
- † Vitrina kubanica Volkova, 1953
- † Vitrina ludovici Depéret, 1895
- † Vitrina obesa H.-Z. Pan, 1977
- † Vitrina obliqua H.-Z. Pan, 1977 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym)
- Vitrina pellucida (Müller, 1774)
- † Vitrina puncticulata F. Sandberger, 1872
- Vitrina rugulosa E. von Martens, 1874
- † Vitrina splendida C. Koch, 1880
- Vitrina tenella A. Gould, 1852
- † Vitrina turonica Collot, 1911
- Synonyms
- † Vitrina suevica Sandberger, 1872: synonym of † Phenacolimax suevica (F. Sandberger, 1872) (superseded combination)
- Taxa inquirenda
- Vitrina amoena Morelet, 1884
- Vitrina angolensis Morelet, 1867
- Vitrina bozasi de Rochebrune & Germain, 1904
- Vitrina compacta Preston, 1912
- Vitrina josephinae Emberton & Griffiths, 2009 (generic affinity uncertain)
- Vitrina madagascariensis E. A. Smith, 1882
- Vitrina marojeziana Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
- Vitrina ugandensis Thiele, 1911
References edit
- ^ 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
- ^ AnimalBase: Vitrina
- ^ Monograph of theland and freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles; Part XII. pp. 1—16, published June 15, 1906.
- ^ 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
- Hubendick B. (1954). The relationships of East African Vitrinae with notes on the taxonomy of Vitrina. Arkiv för Zoologi. 6(5): 83-96
- Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links edit
- Draparnaud, J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116
- Semper, C. (1870-1885). Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen, Theil 2. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Band 3, Landmollusken. Wiesbaden: Kreidel.
- Baker, H. B. (1929). Nomenclature in the genus Vitrina. The Nautilus. 42(4): 137-139. Philadelphia
- AnimalBase info at: [1]