Vitrinella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Vitrinellidae.[1]

Vitrinella
Shell of Vitrinella canaliculata (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Vitrinellidae
Genus: Vitrinella
C. B. Adams, 1850
Type species
Vitrinella helicoidea C.B.Adams, 1850
Synonyms[1]
  • Vitrinella (Docomphala) Bartsch, 1907 alternate representation
  • Vitrinella (Vitrinellops) Pilsbry & Olsson, 1952 · alternate representation

Distribution edit

This marine genus occurs off Gulf of Oman, New Caledonia, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria)

Species edit

Species brought into synonymy
Taxa inquirenda
  • Vitrinella carinifex Dall, 1927
  • Vitrinella massarita Dall, 1927
Nomine dubia
  • Vitrinella carinata (d'Orbigny, 1842)
  • Vitrinella cyclostomoides (Pfeiffer, 1840)
  • Vitrinella hyalina C. B. Adams, 1850
  • Vitrinella tincta C. B. Adams, 1850

References edit

  1. ^ a b Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Vitrinella. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160067 on 2015-12-05
  • Dautzenberg, P., 1912. Mission Gruvel sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique (1909-1910), Mollusques marins. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique "1913"5(3): 111 p, 3 pls
  • Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179-279, pls 33-36
  • Iredale, T. 1930. Some notable name changes. The Australian Zoologist 6(2): 175
  • Fischer-Piette, E. & Nicklès, N., 1946. Mollusques nouveaux ou peu connus des côtes de l'Afrique occidentale. Journal de Conchyliologie 87: 42-81, pl 1
  • Pilsbry, H. A. & Olsson, A. A. (1952). Vitrinellidae of the Panamic Province: II. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 104: 35-88, pl. 2-13.
  • Laseron, 1956, Records of the Australian Museum, 24(11): 174
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda

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