Vitrina

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

Vitrina
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 Edit this classification
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
  • Cobresia Hübner, 1810
  • Glischrus (Hyalina) S. Studer, 1820 (non Schumacher, 1817)
  • Helicolimax J. B. Férussac, 1807
  • Helix (Hyalina) S. Studer, 1820 (junior objective synonym)
  • Hyalina S. Studer, 1820 junior homonym (non Schumacher, 1817)
  • Pagana Gistel, 1848
  • Vitrina (Vitrina) Draparnaud, 1801
  • Zonites (Hyalina) Studer, 1820

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:

  • 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  • Vitrina suevica Sandberger, 1872: synonym of † Phenacolimax suevica (F. Sandberger, 1872) (superseded combination)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

  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

  • 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 16th, 2017


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