Vitrea diaphana

Vitrea diaphana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Pristilomatidae
Genus: Vitrea
Subgenus: Vitrea
Species: V. diaphana
Binomial name
Vitrea diaphana
(Studer, 1820)[1]

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

This is the type species of the genus Vitrea.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is alpine and southern-European.[2]

References

  1. Studer S. (1820). "Kurzes Verzeichniss der bis jetzt in unserm Vaterlande entdeckten Conchylien". Naturwissenschaftlicher Anzeiger der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 3(11): 83-90, 91-94. Bern.
  2. (Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  3. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine". Journal of Conchology 41(1): 91-109.


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