Vitrina is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.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
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.AnimalBase: Vitrina
These are closely allied species, in which the internal organization is in many cases more distinctive than the external aspect of the shell.Monograph of theland and freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles; Part XII. pp. 1—16, published June 15, 1906.
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, 1877Delaunay, Journ. de Conch, xxv., p. 363, pl. 11, f. 5. 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Collot, 1911 Synonyms † Vitrina suevica Sandberger, 1872: synonym of † Phenacolimax suevica (F. Sandberger, 1872) (superseded combination) Taxa inquirenda Vitrina amoena Morelet, 1884 Vitrina angolensis Morelet, 1867 Vitrina bozasi de Rochebrune & Germain, 1904 Vitrina compacta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: