Vitrina pellucida
| Vitrina pellucida | |
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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 | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade Limacoid clade |
| Superfamily: | Limacoidea |
| Family: | Vitrinidae |
| Genus: | Vitrina |
| Species: | V. pellucida |
| Binomial name | |
| Vitrina pellucida (O. F. Müller, 1774)[1] | |
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Vitrina pellucida is species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.
Distribution
This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands in Western Europe and Central Europe, including:
- Czech Republic
- Bulgaria
- Czech Republic
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Ukraine[2]
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- and other areas
Shell description
The shell is subglobose, somewhat smooth, pellucid and greenish hyaline in colour. The shell has 3 whorls that enlarge rapidly and are somewhat convex. The body whorl is wide and a little flattened below. The suture is wrinkled. The aperture is lunately rounded.[3]
The width of the shell is 6 mm, the height is 3.5 mm.[3]
 Apical view of the shell of Vitrina pellucida. |
 Umbilical view of the shell of Vitrina pellucida. |
Ecology
Predators: This snail is eaten by hedgehogs[3]
Food: This species eats liverworts (Jungermanniaceae) and decayed leaves. It will also eat dead earthworms and horse manure.[3]
Habitat: These snails live in moist and shady places, but are not usually observed until late in the autumn.[3]
Eggs: Their eggs are deposited in small heaps, and have a membraneous covering.[3]
Parasites of Vitrina pellucida include:
- Elaphostrongylus spp.[4]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [3]
- ↑ Müller, O. F. 1774. Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. - pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniæ & Lipsiæ. (Heineck & Faber).
- ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Tryon G. W. (1885). Manual of conchology; structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. (2)1: 141-143. Plate 30, fig. 12-16.
- ↑ Olsson I.-M., Stéen M. & Mann H. (1993). "Gastropod hosts of Elaphostrongylus spp. (Protostrongylidae, Nematoda)". Rangifer 13(1): 53-55. PDF.