Vitrea

Vitrea
Apical and umbilical view of an oxidized shell of Vitrea vereae. The shell when fresh is glassy and transparent.
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: Pristilomatidae
Genus: Vitrea
Fitzinger, 1833[1]
Diversity[2]
at least 65 species

Vitrea is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pristilomatidae.

According to WoRMS this genus belongs in the family Zonitidae [3]

Species

This genus contains more than 60 species, including the following:

subgenus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833

subgenus Subrimatus A. J. Wagner, 1907

subgenus Crystallus R. T. Lowe, 1854

subgenus ?

References

  1. ↑ Fitzinger L. I. (1833). "Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben". Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreich's unter der Enns 3: 88-122. Wien. p. 99.
  2. ↑ "Species in genus Vitrea (n=65)". AnimalBase, accessed 8 November 2012.
  3. ↑ Marshall, B. (2014). Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818629 on 2014-11-06
  4. ↑ Irikov, A.; Georgiev, D.; Riedel, A. (2004). "A new species of the genus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833 from Bulgaria (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Zonitidae)". Folia Malacologica 12 (2): 79–81.

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