Vitrea

Vitrea
	Apical and umbilical view of an oxidized shell of Vitrea vereae. The shell when fresh is glassy and transparent.
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; Fitzinger, 1833
Diversity
	at least 65 species
Synonyms
	Anomphala Westerlund, 1886; Crystallinus A.J. Wagner, 1907; Crystallus R. T. Lowe, 1855; Diaphanella Clessin, 1880; Hyalina (Vitrea) Fitzinger, 1833; † Hyalinia (Vitrea) Fitzinger, 1833 (considered as a separate genus); Pinterella A. Riedel, 1980; Subrimatus A.J. Wagner, 1907; Vitrea (Vitrea) Fitzinger, 1833· accepted, alternate representation;

Vitrea is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pristilomatidae.

According to the World Register of Marine Species this genus belongs in the family Zonitidae.^[3]

Species[]

This genus contains more than 60 species, including the following:

subgenus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833

subgenus A. J. Wagner, 1907

subgenus R. T. Lowe, 1854

subgenus ?

^ Fitzinger L. I. (1833). "Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben". Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreich's unter der Enns 3: 88-122. Wien. p. 99.
^ "Species in genus Vitrea (n=65)". AnimalBase, accessed 8 November 2012.
^ Marshall, B. (2014). Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818629 on 2014-11-06
^ Irikov, A.; Georgiev, D.; Riedel, A. (2004). "A new species of the genus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833 from Bulgaria (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Zonitidae)". . 12 (2): 79–81. doi:10.12657/folmal.012.005.

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