''Vitrea subrimata'' is a small, air-breathing

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, a

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

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in the family

Pristilomatidae Pristilomatidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea. According to the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi these snails belong to the "limacoid ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vitrea subrimata (Reinhardt, 1871). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1002779 on 2023-06-14 ;Subspecies: * ''Vitrea subrimata litoralis'' (Clessin, 1877)

Description

The shell is small: 1.3-2.2 mm x 2.5–5 mm (diameter 2.6-2.7 mm at 3 whorls, 3.5-3.8 mm at 4 whorls) The shell is colourless and transparent. It contains 4-5

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as seen from above is 1.2-1.7 times that of the penultimate whorl. The umbilicus is very narrow but is present (different from ''Vitrea diaphana''). The columellar margin is pointed and slightly protruding, covering the umbilicus very weakly. The shell is very variable, except for the characteristic form of the columellar margin at the umbilicus. The morphological variation has been associated with subspecies, but the nature of the variation is not yet understood. Two forms may co-occur with and without intermediates, other populations may consist of only one form.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is alpine and southern European. Lisický M. J. (1991)
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he Slovak molluscs VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp. This species occurs in countries and islands including: *

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Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine". ''Journal of Conchology'' 41(1): 91-109. *

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. This species can be found in humid mountain forests under leaf litter, stones or crevices, usually on calcareous substrate, rocks and rock rubble, up to 2600 m. In Bulgaria, it is recorded from 2000 m; in England, it is recorded in open habitats, between 250 and 600 m.

References

* Boettger, O. (1880). Aufzählung der von Hrn. Edmund Reitter in Wien im Frühjahr 1880 in dem westlichen Montenegro, in Süd–Dalmatien & in Süd–Croatien gesammelten Mollusken. Bericht über die Thätigkeit des Offenbacher Vereins für Naturkunde, 19/21: 100–115. Offenbach am Main. * Kobelt, W. (1881). Zwei neue süditalienische Hyalinen. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 13(12): 179–180. * Wagner, A. J. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna Oesterreichs und Ungarns, sowie der angrenzenden Balkanländer. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 39 (3): 101–115. Frankfurt am Main. * Pintér, L. (1972). Die Gattung Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833 in den Balkanländern (Gastropoda: Zonitidae). Annales Zoologici, 29 (8): 209–315. Warszawa * Riedel, A. (1995). Zonitidae sensu lato (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) der Türkei. Übersicht der Arten. Fragmenta Faunistica, 38 (1): 1-86. Warszawa * Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates * Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017.

External links

Reinhardt, O. (1871). Über die in Deutschland vorkommenden Hyalinen aus der Crystallina-Gruppe. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 2: 39-40. Berlin

Kimakowicz, M. von (1890). Beitrag zur Molluskenfauna Siebenbürgens, II. Nachtrag. Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften, 40: 1-113. Hermannstadt

Sparacio, I., Surdo, S., Viviano, R., Liberto, F. & Reitano, A. (2021). Land molluscs from the Isola delle Femmine Nature Reserve (north-western Sicily, Italy) (Gastropoda Architaenioglossa Pulmonata). Biodiversity Journal. 12 (3): 589–624
{{Taxonbar, from=Q7937224 Pristilomatidae Gastropods described in 1871