Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Glassy Grapeskin
Description
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Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,035 meters (0 to 16,519 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
()
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
()
- Phylum:
Mollusca
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795
- Molluscs
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
()
- Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
- Superorder:
Heterobranchia
()
- J.E. Gray, 1840
- Order:
Stylommatophora
()
- Cuvier, in Blainville, 1814
- Suborder:
Eupulmonata
()
- (Haszprunar & Huber, 1990)
- Infraorder:
Stylommatophora
()
- A. Schmidt, 1855
- Superfamily:
Zonitoidea
()
- Mörch, 1864
- Family:
Zonitidae
()
- Mörch, 1864
- Genus:
Vitrinizonites
()
- Specific name:
latissimus
- (J. Lewis, 1875)
- Scientific name: - Vitrinizonites latissimus (J. Lewis, 1875)
- Specific name:
latissimus
- (J. Lewis, 1875)
- Genus:
Vitrinizonites
(
- Family:
Zonitidae
(
- Superfamily:
Zonitoidea
(
- Infraorder:
Stylommatophora
(
- Suborder:
Eupulmonata
(
- Order:
Stylommatophora
(
- Superorder:
Heterobranchia
(
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
(
- Phylum:
Mollusca
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Vitrizonites latissimus (J. Lewis
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Vitrinizonites
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:
V. latissimus (Glassy Grapeskin)
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Further Reading
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- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York, New York Academy of Sciences. url , p. 362.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 11 1883 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 145, p. 145, p. 188, p. 188, p. 332, p. 340, p. 340, explan. of plates, page 356, p. 356.
- Journal of conchology. London: D. Bogue. url p. 376.
- Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. Lexington, KY: The Academy, 1998- url p. 124, p. 124, p. 193, p. 193.
- The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url , , , , p. 100, p. 106, p. 106, p. 126, p. 129, p. 129, p. 138, p. 20, p. 21, p. 320, p. 327, p. 43, p. 43, p. 57, p. 58, p. 8, p. 9, p. 97.
- The distributions of the native land mollusks of the Eastern United States / Leslie Hubricht. 24 1985 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1985. url p. 190, p. 26, p. v.
- The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States, and the adjacent territories of North America: described and illustrated by Amos Binney. Ed. by Augustus A. Gould. .. Boston, C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1851-78. url p. 145, p. 188.
- Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science. [Lexington, Ky.]Kentucky Academy of Science, 1923-1997. url p. 142, p. 172, p. 80, p. 80.
Notes
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Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 01, 2008:
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
- Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2691426
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-568457
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 568457
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 462074
Footnotes
- Mean = 2,400.840 meters (7,876.772 feet), Standard Deviation = 2,023.260 based on 31 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
