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Vitrina
Sign in to saveVitrina is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyVitrinidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 528
- With media
- 16
- Family
- Vitrinidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, USNM
- Recorded in
- France, Dr Congo, Switzerland, Spain, South Africa, Brazil, Ethiopia, United States
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Vitrinidae
- Image
- Vitrina pellucida by Jewitt.jpg
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Vitrina is genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae, the glass snails.
==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.
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