Vitrea

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Vitrea
Apical and umbilical view of an oxidized shell of Vitrea vereae. The shell when fresh is glassy and transparent.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Pristilomatidae
Genus: Vitrea
Fitzinger, 1833[1]
Type species
Glischrus (Helix) diaphana
S. Studer, 1820
Synonyms
  • Anomphala Westerlund, 1886
  • Anomphalus [sic] (incorrect subsequent spelling)
  • Crystallinus A.J. Wagner, 1907
  • Crystallus R. T. Lowe, 1855
  • Diaphanella Clessin, 1880
  • Helix (Crystallus) R. T. Lowe, 1855
  • Hyalina (Crystallus) R. T. Lowe, 1855
  • Hyalina (Vitrea) Fitzinger, 1833
  • Hyalinia (Vitrea) Fitzinger, 1833 (considered as a separate genus)
  • Pinterella A. Riedel, 1980
  • Subrimatus A.J. Wagner, 1907
  • Vitrea (Crystallus) R. T. Lowe, 1855
  • Vitrea (Pinterella) A. Riedel, 1980 (original rank)
  • Vitrea (Subrimatus) A. J. Wagner, 1907
  • Vitrea (Vitrea) Fitzinger, 1833· accepted, alternate representation

Vitrea is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Pristilomatidae.[2]

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

Taxa inquirenda

  • Vitrea cepedei Dautzenberg, 1908
  • Vitrea dalliana (uncertain)
  • Vitrea milium (uncertain)
  • Vitrea petrophila (uncertain)
  • Vitrea placenta Westerlund, 1902 (use in recent literature currently undocumented)
  • Vitrea sublimpida E. A. Smith, 1895
  • Vitrea wheatleyi (uncertain)

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