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Vitreolina
Sign in to saveVitreolina is a genus of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the Eulimidae family.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyEulimidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 338
- With media
- 18
- Family
- Eulimidae
- Collections
- LACM, USNM, UF
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
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Vitreolina is a genus of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the Eulimidae family.
This genus was first described by Monterosato in 1884. He proposed it as a section in the family Eulimidae for some of the Mediterranean species. It contains the small vitreous species without internal varices, with curved spire and slightly obtuse apex.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vitreolina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.