Vitrina Explained

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

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• † Vitrina suevica Sandberger, 1872: synonym of † Phenacolimax suevica (F. Sandberger, 1872) (superseded combination)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

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
• AnimalBase info at: http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=637

Notes and 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. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=637 AnimalBase: Vitrina
3. https://archive.org/stream/monographoflandf1521tayl/monographoflandf1521tayl_djvu.txt 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.