Vallonia perspectiva or thin-lip vallonia is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Valloniidae.[1]

Vallonia perspectiva
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Valloniidae
Genus: Vallonia
Species:
V. perspectiva
Binomial name
Vallonia perspectiva
Sterki, 1893

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Distribution edit

It is native to the United States and Canada.[2][3][4]

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  1. ^ Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico): Monographs of The Acad. of Natural Sciences of Phila., No. 3, Vol. II, Part 2. Philadelphia, Pa: Academy of Natural Sciences. 1948. ISBN 1-4223-1778-1.
  2. ^ Metcalf, Artie L. (23 March 1984). "Distribution of Land Snails of the San Andres and Organ Mountains, Southern New Mexico". The Southwestern Naturalist. 29 (1): 35–44. doi:10.2307/3670767. JSTOR 3670767.
  3. ^ Tronstad, Lusha. "Survey of Land Snails at Devils Tower National Monument."Report prepared by the Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming for Devils Tower National Monument, National Park Service, Wyoming (2011)
  4. ^ Nekola, Jeffrey C. (2002). "Large-scale terrestrial gastropod community composition patterns in the Great Lakes region of North America". Diversity and Distributions. 9 (1): 55–71. doi:10.1046/j.1472-4642.2003.00165.x. ISSN 1366-9516.

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