Vallonia perspectiva

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
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
Family:
Valloniidae
Genus:
Vallonia
Species:
V. perspectiva
Binomial name
Vallonia perspectiva
Sterki, 1893

Distribution

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

See also

References
  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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