''Vitrina'' is

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of small air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

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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 ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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s in the family

Vitrinidae Vitrinidae is a family (biology), family of small, air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc, mollusks in the superfamily Limacoidea (according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouc ...

, the glass snails.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

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

Distribution

These species occur in North America,

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, Europe and northern Asia.

Species

Species with the genus ''Vitrina'' include: * '' Vitrina angelicae'' Beck, 1837 * '' Vitrina baudoni'' Delaunay, 1877Delaunay, Journ. de Conch , xxv., p. 363, pl. 11, f. 5. * '' Vitrina exilis'' Morelet, 1858 * † ''

Vitrina kubanica ''Vitrina'' is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...

'' Volkova, 1953 * † ''

Vitrina ludovici ''Vitrina'' is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...

'' Depéret, 1895 * † ''

Vitrina obesa ''Vitrina'' is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...

'' H.-Z. Pan, 1977 * † ''

Vitrina obliqua ''Vitrina'' is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...

'' H.-Z. Pan, 1977 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym) * ''

Vitrina pellucida ''Vitrina pellucida'' is species of small land snail, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vitrina pellucida (O. F. Müller, 1774). Acce ...

'' (Müller, 1774) * † ''

Vitrina puncticulata ''Vitrina'' is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...

'' F. Sandberger, 1872 * ''

Vitrina rugulosa ''Vitrina'' is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...

'' E. von Martens, 1874 * † ''

Vitrina splendida ''Vitrina'' is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...

'' C. Koch, 1880 * ''

Vitrina tenella ''Vitrina'' is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...

'' A. Gould, 1852 * † ''

Vitrina turonica ''Vitrina'' is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...

'' Collot, 1911 ;Synonyms: * † ''Vitrina suevica'' Sandberger, 1872: synonym of † ''

Phenacolimax suevica ''Phenacolimax'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae Vitrinidae is a family (biology), family of small, air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial molluscs, ter ...

'' (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

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

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
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