Vitrea transsylvanica

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Vitrea transsylvanica
Shell of Vitrea transsylvanica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Pristilomatidae
Genus: Vitrea
Species:
V. transsylvanica
Binomial name
Vitrea transsylvanica
(Clessin, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Hyalina transsylvanica Clessin, 1877 (original combination)
  • Vitrea (Vitrea) transsylvanica (Clessin, 1877) · alternate representation

Vitrea transsylvanica is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pristilomatidae.[1]

The shell is small: 1.3-2.2 mm x 3.0-4.5 mm.

The body whorl is more inflated than in Vitrea subrimata and Vitrea subcarinata. The width, as seen from above, is around 2.3-2.6 times that of the penultimate whorl. The first whorls are denser arranged than in Vitrea subrimata. The aperture, as seen from above, is weakly curved (Nautilus-like protruded). There is no umbilicus

This species differs from Vitrea diaphana in its wider body whorl and its Nautilus-like protruded aperture (in Vitrea diaphana straight).[2]

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