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Vitrina pellucida (O. F. Müller, 1774)
1002895 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1002895)
accepted
Species
Cobresia vitrea Hübner, 1810 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helicolimax (Helicolimax) pellucidus (O.F. Müller, 1774) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Helix domestica Strøm, 1765 · unaccepted (nomen oblitum)
Helix elliptica T. Brown, 1818 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix limacoides von Alten, 1812 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix pellucida O. F. Müller, 1774 · unaccepted (original combination)
Hyalina pellucida (O. F. Müller, 1774) · unaccepted
Vitrina (Oligolimax) servainiana Saint-Simon, 1870 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina (Phenacolimax) globosa O. Boettger, 1880 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina (Phenacolimax) pellucida (O. F. Müller, 1774) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Vitrina (Phenacolimax) pellucida var. bellardii Pollonera, 1884 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina (Phenacolimax) pellucida var. brunnensis Uličný, 1883 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina (Phenacolimax) pellucida var. dillwynii Jeffreys, 1833 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Vitrina (Phenacolimax) pellucida var. perforata Westerlund, 1876 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Vitrina (Vitrina) pellucida (O. F. Müller, 1774) · unaccepted
Vitrina alaskana Dall, 1905 · unaccepted
Vitrina alpina Gredler, 1856 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina beryllina C. Pfeiffer, 1821 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Vitrina bielzi M. Kimakowicz, 1890 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Vitrina depressa Jeffreys, 1830 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina dillwynii Jeffreys, 1833 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina globosa O. Boettger, 1880 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina hiemalis C. Koch, 1876 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina muelleri Jeffreys, 1830 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina pellucida var. bellardii Pollonera, 1884 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina pellucida var. brunnensis Uličný, 1883 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina pellucida var. perforata Westerlund, 1876 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrina pfeifferi Newcomb, 1861 · unaccepted (homonym; non Deshayes, 1851)
Vitrina rhodopensis A. J. Wagner, 1911 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Vitrina servainiana Saint-Simon, 1870 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Variety Vitrina pellucida var. bellardii Pollonera, 1884 accepted as Vitrina pellucida (O. F. Müller, 1774) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Vitrina pellucida var. brunnensis Uličný, 1883 accepted as Vitrina pellucida (O. F. Müller, 1774) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Vitrina pellucida var. perforata Westerlund, 1876 accepted as Vitrina pellucida (O. F. Müller, 1774) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Subspecies Vitrina pellucida islandica Forcart, 1955 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
(of Helix pellucida O. F. Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. vol 2. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Mölleriana. I-XXXVI, 1-214 pp, 10 unnumbered pages. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12893715
page(s): 15-17 [details]
page(s): 15-17 [details]
Neotype (of Helix pellucida O. F. Müller, 1774) NHMD...
, Type locality contained in Denmark
Neotype (of Helix pellucida O. F. Müller, 1774) NHMD 90680 [details]
type locality contained in Denmark [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
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original description
(of Vitrina rhodopensis A. J. Wagner, 1911) Wohlberedt, O. (1911). Zur Molluskenfauna von Bulgarien. <em>Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Görlitz.</em> 27: 167-234, pl. 1. Görlitz. [Separatum: 1-72, pl. 1]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58474615
page(s): 177, Taf. 2, Fig. 1a, b, c [details]
original description (of Vitrina alaskana Dall, 1905) Dall, W. H. (1905). <i>Land and fresh water mollusks of Alaska and adjoining regions</i>. in: <i>Alaska. Harriman Alaska Expedition with cooperation of Washington Academy of Sciences</i>. vol. 13: i-vii + 1-171. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21386445
page(s): 37 [details]
original description (of Helix pellucida O. F. Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. vol 2. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Mölleriana. I-XXXVI, 1-214 pp, 10 unnumbered pages. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12893715
page(s): 15-17 [details]
original description (of Vitrina pfeifferi Newcomb, 1861) Newcomb, W. (1861). Description of new shells. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> (1)2: 91-94., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3837015
page(s): 92 [details]
original description (of Vitrina beryllina C. Pfeiffer, 1821) Pfeiffer, C. (1821-1828). <i>Naturgeschichte deutscher Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken</i>. Weimar. Abt. 1: i-x, 1-134, pls 1-8 [1821]; Abt. 2: i-viii, 1-40, pls 1-8 [1825]; Abt. 3: i-vi, 1-84, pls 1-8 [1828]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52682383
page(s): 47, pl. 3, fig. 1 [details]
original description (of Vitrina globosa O. Boettger, 1880) Boettger, O. (1880). Kaukasische Mollusken gesammelt von Herrn Hans Leder, z. Z. in Tiflis. <em>Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 7 (2): 109-150, pl. 4. Frankfurt am Main [1 April]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16297493
page(s): 115 [details]
original description (of Vitrina bielzi M. Kimakowicz, 1890) Kimakowicz, M. von (1890). Beitrag zur Molluskenfauna Siebenbürgens, II. Nachtrag. Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften, 40: 1-113. Hermannstadt., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33653868
page(s): 25 [details]
original description (of Helix domestica Strøm, 1765) Strøm, H. (1765). Beskrivelse over Norske insecter, forste stykke. <em>Det Trondheimske Selskab Skrifter.</em> 3: 376–439, pl. VI.
page(s): 435, pl. VI Fig XV [details]
original description (of Helix limacoides von Alten, 1812) Alten, J. W. von. (1812). Systematische Abhandlung über die Erd- und Flußconchylien welche um Augsburg und der umliegenden Gegend gefunden werden. I-XVI, 1-120, Tab. I-XIV. [Augsburg].
page(s): 85, Taf. 11, Fig. 20 [details]
original description (of Vitrina alpina Gredler, 1856) Gredler, V. M. (1856). Tirols Land- und Süßwasser-Conchylien I. Die Landconchylien. <em>Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien.</em> 6: 25–162. Wien., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16414458
page(s): 38 [details]
original description (of Vitrina pellucida var. bellardii Pollonera, 1884) Pollonera, C. (1884). Monografia del genere <i>Vitrina</i>. <em>Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.</em> 19 (3): 322-341, pl. 10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28814511
page(s): 338, Fig. 31 [details]
original description (of Vitrina depressa Jeffreys, 1830) Jeffreys, J. G. (1830). A synopsis of the testaceous pneumonobranchous Mollusca of Great Britain. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 16: 323-392., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2267914
page(s): 327 [details]
original description (of Vitrina dillwynii Jeffreys, 1833) Jeffreys, J. G. (1833). A supplement to the synopsis of the testaceous pneumonobranchous Mollusca of Great Britain. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 16: 505-523., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/763344
page(s): 506 [details]
original description (of Helix elliptica T. Brown, 1818) Brown, T. (1818). Account of the Irish testacea. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History. <em>Society.</em> 2(2): 501-536., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=d0lgCKhd2fwC
page(s): 525, Pl. XXIV, Fig. 8 [details]
original description (of Vitrina muelleri Jeffreys, 1830) Jeffreys, J. G. (1830). A synopsis of the testaceous pneumonobranchous Mollusca of Great Britain. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 16: 323-392., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2267914
page(s): 326 [details]
original description (of Vitrina pellucida var. brunnensis Uličný, 1883) Uličný, J. (1883). Bericht über eine neue Varietät von Vitrina pellucida. <em>Malakozoologische Blätter, Kassel, VI N. F., 200–203.</em>
page(s): 202 [details]
original description (of Vitrina hiemalis C. Koch, 1876) Koch, C. (1876). Ueber einige Mollusken und Arachniden der Oetzthaler Hochalpen. <em>Zeitschrift des deutschen und oesterreichischen Alpenvereins.</em> 7: 217-220.
page(s): 218 [details]
original description (of Cobresia vitrea Hübner, 1810) Hübner J. (1810). Monographie von Testazeen. Baierische Landschnecken, Cobresien oder Cobresiae. <em>Augsburg.</em> pp. [1-4], pl. [1-2]. [details]
original description (of Vitrina pellucida var. perforata Westerlund, 1876) Westerlund, C. A. (1876). Fauna Europaea Molluscorum Extramarinorum. Prodromus. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium generum et specierum horum animalium in Europa viventium et hodie cognitarum. Fasciculus I. 1-160. Lund (Fr. Berlings)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13004852
page(s): 16 [details]
original description (of Vitrina servainiana Saint-Simon, 1870) Saint-Simon A. de. (1870). Description d´espèces nouvelles du Midi de la France. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 1: 20–33., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16253014
page(s): 20 [details]
basis of record Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. <em>Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft).</em> 312 pp., 142 plates. [June] [= Pensoft Series Faunistica No 87].
page(s): 137, Fig. 71B [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Schileyko, A. A. & Rymzhanov, T. S. (2013). Fauna of land mollusks (Gastropoda, Pulmonata Terrestria) of Kazakhstan and adjacent territories. <em>Moscow-Almaty: KMK Scientific Press.</em> 389 pp., available online at https://herba.msu.ru/shipunov/school/books/shilejko2013_fauna_nazemn_moll_kz.djvu
page(s): 177, pl. 38Б; textfig. 79 [details]
additional source Hausdorf, B. (1995). The Vitrinidae of Turkey, with remarks on the phylogeny of Gallandia(Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 234: 63-74.
page(s): 64 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Nevill, G. (1878). Mollusca. Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission; based upon the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka Ph.D., 1-21, 1 pl. Calcutta (Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56816818
page(s): 2 [details]
page(s): 177, Taf. 2, Fig. 1a, b, c [details]
original description (of Vitrina alaskana Dall, 1905) Dall, W. H. (1905). <i>Land and fresh water mollusks of Alaska and adjoining regions</i>. in: <i>Alaska. Harriman Alaska Expedition with cooperation of Washington Academy of Sciences</i>. vol. 13: i-vii + 1-171. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21386445
page(s): 37 [details]
original description (of Helix pellucida O. F. Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. vol 2. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Mölleriana. I-XXXVI, 1-214 pp, 10 unnumbered pages. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12893715
page(s): 15-17 [details]
original description (of Vitrina pfeifferi Newcomb, 1861) Newcomb, W. (1861). Description of new shells. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> (1)2: 91-94., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3837015
page(s): 92 [details]
original description (of Vitrina beryllina C. Pfeiffer, 1821) Pfeiffer, C. (1821-1828). <i>Naturgeschichte deutscher Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken</i>. Weimar. Abt. 1: i-x, 1-134, pls 1-8 [1821]; Abt. 2: i-viii, 1-40, pls 1-8 [1825]; Abt. 3: i-vi, 1-84, pls 1-8 [1828]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52682383
page(s): 47, pl. 3, fig. 1 [details]
original description (of Vitrina globosa O. Boettger, 1880) Boettger, O. (1880). Kaukasische Mollusken gesammelt von Herrn Hans Leder, z. Z. in Tiflis. <em>Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 7 (2): 109-150, pl. 4. Frankfurt am Main [1 April]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16297493
page(s): 115 [details]
original description (of Vitrina bielzi M. Kimakowicz, 1890) Kimakowicz, M. von (1890). Beitrag zur Molluskenfauna Siebenbürgens, II. Nachtrag. Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften, 40: 1-113. Hermannstadt., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33653868
page(s): 25 [details]
original description (of Helix domestica Strøm, 1765) Strøm, H. (1765). Beskrivelse over Norske insecter, forste stykke. <em>Det Trondheimske Selskab Skrifter.</em> 3: 376–439, pl. VI.
page(s): 435, pl. VI Fig XV [details]
original description (of Helix limacoides von Alten, 1812) Alten, J. W. von. (1812). Systematische Abhandlung über die Erd- und Flußconchylien welche um Augsburg und der umliegenden Gegend gefunden werden. I-XVI, 1-120, Tab. I-XIV. [Augsburg].
page(s): 85, Taf. 11, Fig. 20 [details]
original description (of Vitrina alpina Gredler, 1856) Gredler, V. M. (1856). Tirols Land- und Süßwasser-Conchylien I. Die Landconchylien. <em>Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien.</em> 6: 25–162. Wien., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16414458
page(s): 38 [details]
original description (of Vitrina pellucida var. bellardii Pollonera, 1884) Pollonera, C. (1884). Monografia del genere <i>Vitrina</i>. <em>Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.</em> 19 (3): 322-341, pl. 10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28814511
page(s): 338, Fig. 31 [details]
original description (of Vitrina depressa Jeffreys, 1830) Jeffreys, J. G. (1830). A synopsis of the testaceous pneumonobranchous Mollusca of Great Britain. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 16: 323-392., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2267914
page(s): 327 [details]
original description (of Vitrina dillwynii Jeffreys, 1833) Jeffreys, J. G. (1833). A supplement to the synopsis of the testaceous pneumonobranchous Mollusca of Great Britain. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 16: 505-523., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/763344
page(s): 506 [details]
original description (of Helix elliptica T. Brown, 1818) Brown, T. (1818). Account of the Irish testacea. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History. <em>Society.</em> 2(2): 501-536., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=d0lgCKhd2fwC
page(s): 525, Pl. XXIV, Fig. 8 [details]
original description (of Vitrina muelleri Jeffreys, 1830) Jeffreys, J. G. (1830). A synopsis of the testaceous pneumonobranchous Mollusca of Great Britain. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 16: 323-392., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2267914
page(s): 326 [details]
original description (of Vitrina pellucida var. brunnensis Uličný, 1883) Uličný, J. (1883). Bericht über eine neue Varietät von Vitrina pellucida. <em>Malakozoologische Blätter, Kassel, VI N. F., 200–203.</em>
page(s): 202 [details]
original description (of Vitrina hiemalis C. Koch, 1876) Koch, C. (1876). Ueber einige Mollusken und Arachniden der Oetzthaler Hochalpen. <em>Zeitschrift des deutschen und oesterreichischen Alpenvereins.</em> 7: 217-220.
page(s): 218 [details]
original description (of Cobresia vitrea Hübner, 1810) Hübner J. (1810). Monographie von Testazeen. Baierische Landschnecken, Cobresien oder Cobresiae. <em>Augsburg.</em> pp. [1-4], pl. [1-2]. [details]
original description (of Vitrina pellucida var. perforata Westerlund, 1876) Westerlund, C. A. (1876). Fauna Europaea Molluscorum Extramarinorum. Prodromus. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium generum et specierum horum animalium in Europa viventium et hodie cognitarum. Fasciculus I. 1-160. Lund (Fr. Berlings)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13004852
page(s): 16 [details]
original description (of Vitrina servainiana Saint-Simon, 1870) Saint-Simon A. de. (1870). Description d´espèces nouvelles du Midi de la France. <em>Annales de Malacologie.</em> 1: 20–33., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16253014
page(s): 20 [details]
basis of record Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. <em>Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft).</em> 312 pp., 142 plates. [June] [= Pensoft Series Faunistica No 87].
page(s): 137, Fig. 71B [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Schileyko, A. A. & Rymzhanov, T. S. (2013). Fauna of land mollusks (Gastropoda, Pulmonata Terrestria) of Kazakhstan and adjacent territories. <em>Moscow-Almaty: KMK Scientific Press.</em> 389 pp., available online at https://herba.msu.ru/shipunov/school/books/shilejko2013_fauna_nazemn_moll_kz.djvu
page(s): 177, pl. 38Б; textfig. 79 [details]
additional source Hausdorf, B. (1995). The Vitrinidae of Turkey, with remarks on the phylogeny of Gallandia(Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 234: 63-74.
page(s): 64 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Nevill, G. (1878). Mollusca. Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission; based upon the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka Ph.D., 1-21, 1 pl. Calcutta (Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56816818
page(s): 2 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Neotype (of Helix pellucida O. F. Müller, 1774) NHMD 90680 [details]
To Barcode of Life (32 barcodes)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Vitrina pellucida)
To GenBank (307 nucleotides; 139 proteins)
To Malacopics (Vitrina pellucida (O. F. Müller, 1774))
To NMNH Extant Collection (Poplavskaya letter)
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 1454457)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Vitrina pellucida)
To GenBank (307 nucleotides; 139 proteins)
To Malacopics (Vitrina pellucida (O. F. Müller, 1774))
To NMNH Extant Collection (Poplavskaya letter)
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 1454457)
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