Vitrea
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Vitrea is a genus of small, air-breathing land snail
, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pristilomatidae
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subgenus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833
subgenus Subrimatus A. J. Wagner, 1907
subgenus Crystallus R. T. Lowe, 1854
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Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
, a terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pristilomatidae
Pristilomatidae
Pristilomatidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.According to the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi these snails belong to the "limacoid clade", and Vitreinae is a synonym for Pristilomatidae,...
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Species
This genus contains more than 60 species including the following:subgenus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833
- Vitrea diaphanaVitrea diaphanaVitrea diaphana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pristilomatidae.This is the type species of the genus Vitrea.- Distribution :...
(Studer, 1820) - Vitrea transsylvanicaVitrea transsylvanicaVitrea transsylvanica is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pristilomatidae....
(Clessin, 1877)
subgenus Subrimatus A. J. Wagner, 1907
- Vitrea narbonensis (Clessin, 1877)
- Vitrea subrimataVitrea subrimataVitrea subrimata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pristilomatidae.- Distribution :Distribution of this species is alpine and southern-European....
(Reinhardt, 1871)
subgenus Crystallus R. T. Lowe, 1854
- Vitrea contractaVitrea contractaVitrea contracta is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pristilomatidae.- Distribution :This species occurs in countries and islands including:* Czech Republic* Great Britain* Ireland...
(Westerlund, 1871) - Vitrea crystallinaVitrea crystallinaVitrea crystallina is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pristilomatidae.- Distribution :This species occurs in countries and islands including:* Czech Republic* Great Britain* Ireland...
(O. F. Müller, 1774)
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- Vitrea inaeVitrea inaeVitrea inae is a species of gastropod in the Pristilomatidae family.It is endemic to Spain.-References:* Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 7 August 2007....
- Vitrea pseudotrolliVitrea pseudotrolliVitrea pseudotrolli is a species of gastropod in the Pristilomatidae family.It is found in France and Italy....
- Vitrea striataVitrea striataVitrea striata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pristilomatidae.This species is endemic to Spain.-References:* Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 7 August 2007....
- Vitrea vereaeVitrea vereaeVitrea vereae is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pristilomatidae....
Irikov, Georgiev & Riedel, 2004 - and many others