Nesovitrea binneyana
Nesovitrea binneyana | |
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Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Nesovitrea binneyana | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
Superfamily: | Gastrodontoidea |
Family: | Oxychilidae |
Subfamily: | Godwiniinae |
Genus: | Nesovitrea |
Species: | N. binneyana |
Binomial name | |
Nesovitrea binneyana (E. S. Morse, 1864) | |
Synonyms | |
Vitrea binneyana |
Nesovitrea binneyana, common name the blue glass snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.
This species is named in honor of the American malacologist William G. Binney.
Distribution
This species occurs in North America.