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Vertigo Alpestris
''Vertigo alpestris'' is a species of minute, air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vertigo alpestris Alder, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050658 on 2023-02-07 ;Subspecies: * † ''Vertigo alpestris tobieni'' Schlickum & Strauch, 1979 * ''Vertigo alpestris uturyotoensis'' Kuroda & Hukuda, 1944 Shell description The shell is subcylindrical, thin and semitransparent, closely and rather strongly striate in the line of growth. Its color is very glossy, a pale yellowish-horn-color. The periphery is rounded: epidermis thin. The shell has 4½ convex whorls, but slightly compressed. The spire is short, abrupt and bluntly pointed. The suture is excessively deep. The shell aperture is semioval and subangular, owing to the outward compression of the periphery. The ape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastropod Shell
The gastropod shell is part of the body of a Gastropoda, gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc. The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators, mechanical damage, and dehydration, but also serves for muscle attachment and calcium storage. Some gastropods appear shell-less (slugs) but may have a remnant within the mantle, or in some cases the shell is reduced such that the body cannot be retracted within it (semi-slug). Some snails also possess an operculum that seals the opening of the shell, known as the Aperture (mollusc), aperture, which provides further protection. The study of mollusc shells is known as conchology. The biological study of gastropods, and other molluscs in general, is malacology. Shell morphology terms vary by species group. Shell layers The gastropod shell has three major layers secreted by the Mantle (mollusc), mantle. The calcareous central layer, tracum, is typically made of calcium carbonate precipitated into an organic matrix known as c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aperture (mollusc)
The aperture is an opening in certain kinds of mollusc shells: it is the main opening of the shell, where the head-foot part of the body of the animal emerges for locomotion, feeding, etc. The term ''aperture'' is used for the main opening in gastropod shells, scaphopod shells, and also for ''Nautilus'' and ammonite shells. The word is not used to describe bivalve shells, where a natural opening between the two shell valves in the closed position is usually called a ''gape''. Scaphopod shells are tubular, and thus they have two openings: a main anterior aperture and a smaller posterior aperture. As well as the aperture, some gastropod shells have additional openings in their shells for respiration; this is the case in some Fissurellidae (keyhole limpets) where the central smaller opening at the apex of the shell is called an orifice, and in the Haliotidae (abalones) where the row of respiratory openings in the shell are also called orifices. In gastropods In some prosobranch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Environment Agency
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) which provides independent information on the environment. Definition The European Environment Agency (EEA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) which provides independent information on the environment. Its goal is to help those involved in developing, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and to inform the general public. Organization The EEA was established by the European Economic Community (EEC) Regulation 1210/1990 (amended by EEC Regulation 933/1999 and EC Regulation 401/2009) and became operational in 1994, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. The agency is governed by a management board composed of representatives of the governments of its 32 member states, a European Commission representative and two scientists appointed by the European Parliament, assisted by its Scientific Committee. The current Executive Director of the agency is Professor Hans Bruyninckx, who has be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Montague Cooke Jr
Charles Montague Cooke Jr. (December 20, 1874 – October 29, 1948) was an American malacologist who published under the name of C. Montague Cooke or C.M. Cooke. Life Charles Montague Cooke Jr. was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 20, 1874. He was from a wealthy family descended from two early missionaries to Hawaii. His mother was Anna Rice Cooke (1853–1934), a patron of the arts in Honolulu and founder of the Honolulu Museum of Art. His father was Charles Montague Cooke (1849–1909), co-founder of the Bank of Hawaii and benefactor of educational institutions such as Kamehameha Schools, Punahou School, and the Waikiki Aquarium. His grandfather Amos Starr Cooke (1810–1871) founded Castle & Cooke. Cooke graduated from Punahou School in 1893, and Yale University, with a Bachelor of Arts in 1897 and a Ph.D. in 1901. He married Eliza Lefferts (1880–1970) from Flatbush, New York on April 25, 1901. They traveled through Europe before returning to Hawaii. They built a gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Augustus Pilsbry
Henry Augustus Pilsbry (7 December 1862 – 26 October 1957) was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a century. For much of his career, his authority with respect to the classification of certain substantial groups of organisms was unchallenged: barnacles, chitons, North American terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial mollusks, and others. Biography Pilsbry (frequently misspelled ''Pilsbury'') spent his childhood and youth in Iowa. He was called "Harry" Pilsbry then, and developed an early fascination with the limited variety of mollusks he was able to find. He attended the University of Iowa, and received the Bachelor of Science degree there in 1882, but did not immediately find employment in his field of interest. Instead, Henry Pilsbry worked for publishing firms and newspapers for the next several years, but devoted most of his spare time to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Non-marine Molluscs Of Hungary
The non-marine molluscs of Hungary are a part of the molluscan fauna of Hungary ( wildlife of Hungary). A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Hungary. Freshwater gastropods Neritidae * ''Theodoxus danubialis'' (C. Pfeiffer, 1828) * ''Theodoxus fluviatilis'' (Linnaeus, 1758)Erika Bódis, Bence Tóth & Ronaldo Sousa (2016). "Freshwater mollusc assemblages and habitat associations in the Danube River drainage, Hungary". Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 26(2): 319-332. DOI:10.1002/aqc.2585 * '' Theodoxus prevostianus'' (Pfeiffer, 1828) Viviparidae * ''Viviparus acerosus'' (Bourguignat, 1862) * ''Viviparus contectus'' (Millet, 1813) Thiaridae * ''Esperiana daudebartii'' (Prevost, 1821) * ''Esperiana esperi'' (Férussac, 1823) * '' Melanoides tuberculatus'' (O. F. Müller, 1774) Hydrobiidae * ''Potamopyrgus antipodarum'' (Gray, 1843) Lithoglyphidae * ''Lithoglyphus naticoides'' (C. Pfeiffer, 1828) Bithyniidae * ''Bithynia te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Non-marine Molluscs Of Great Britain
This list comprises 231 species of non-marine molluscs that have been recorded in the scientific literature as part of the fauna of the island of Great Britain; this total excludes species found only in hothouses and aquaria. The list includes terrestrial and aquatic gastropods, and aquatic bivalves. Molluscs that are fully marine (adapted to live in the sea) are not included here, except for two marine pulmonate snails. In other words, this list includes land snails and slugs, and freshwater and brackish water snails. It also includes freshwater mussels and clams, including some that can tolerate brackish water. Great Britain is a European island in the northeastern Atlantic, comprising the contiguous countries of England, Scotland and Wales. (Great Britain is not the same entity as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; for more information on the complex nomenclature of this area, please see terminology of the British Isles.) The mollusc fauna of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Non-marine Molluscs Of Ukraine
There are at least 287 species of non-marine molluscs living out of doors in Ukraine: 207 species of terrestrial molluscs,Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. ''Journal of Conchology''. 41 (1): 91-109. more than 50 freshwater species of gastropods Gural-Sverlova N.V. & Gural R.I. 2012. Scientific collections of State Natural History Museum of NAS of Ukraine: Malacological fund. Lviv. 254 pp.(in Ukrainian) and 30 species of freshwater bivalves Korniushin A.V. 2002On the Species Diversity of Freshwater Bivalve Mollusks in Ukraine and the Strategy of their Conservation'' Vestnik Zoologii. 36 (1): 9-23. (in Russian) Terrestrial molluscs The list is given on the basis of "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine" published in Journal of Conchology in 2012. In this article 203 species are listed as registered in Ukraine. Species that listed by the other sources are given with individual references. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Non-marine Molluscs Of Slovakia
Slovakia is a land-locked country, and therefore the molluscs of Slovakia are all land and freshwater species. There are 247 Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. nnotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics. ''Malacologica Bohemoslovaca'', Suppl. 1: 1-37PDF species of molluscs living in the wild in Slovakia. In addition there are 9 gastropod species living only in greenhouses. There are a total of 219 species of gastropods, which breaks down to 51 species of freshwater gastropods, and 168 species of land gastropods, plus 28 species of bivalves living in the wild. There are 8 non-indigenous gastropod species (3 freshwater and 5 land species) and 3 species of bivalves in the wild in Slovakia. This is a total of 6 freshwater non-indigenous species of wild molluscs. ;Summary table of number of species There a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Non-marine Molluscs Of Poland
There are approximately 265 species of non-marine molluscs living in the wild in Poland. Systematic list The list is in zoological order rather than alphabetical order. The Polish common name (where one exists) of each mollusc is given first, in parentheses, and then the scientific name. The source for the non-marine species on this list isCLECOM-PROJECT: Checklist of species-group taxa of continental Mollusca living in the Netherlands (CLECOM Section I) 14-07-2002with changes. Gastropoda Neritidae * (rozdepka rzeczna) '' Theodoxus fluviatilis fluviatilis'' (Linnaeus, 1758) ** '' Theodoxus fluviatilis littoralis'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Aciculidae * (igliczek karpacki) ''Acicula parcelineata'' (Clessin, 1911) * (igliczek lśniący) ''Platyla polita'' (Hartmann, 1840) Viviparidae * (żyworódka pospolita) ''Viviparus viviparus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * (żyworódka rzeczna) ''Viviparus contectus'' (Millet, 1813) Bithyniidae * (zagrzebka pospolita) '' Bithynia tentaculata'' (Linnaeu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Non-marine Molluscs Of The Czech Republic
This is a list of the non-marine molluscs of the Czech Republic. That country is land-locked and therefore it has no marine molluscs, only land and freshwater species, including snails, slugs, freshwater clams and freshwater mussels. There are 247 species of molluscs living in the wild in the Czech Republic. In addition there are at least 11 gastropod species surviving in greenhouses. There are 219 gastropod species (50 freshwater and 169 land species) and 28 bivalve species living in the wild. There are also 11 introduced gastropod species (5 freshwater and 7 land species) and 4 bivalve species living in the wild in the Czech Republic. This is a total of 9 freshwater non-indigenous species living in natural habitats. ;Summary table of number of species There are 2 endemic species of molluscs in the Czech Republic: *'' Alzoniella slovenica'' in Moravia (and in Slovakia too) *'' Bulgarica nitidosa'' in Bohemia. History Historical lists from 19th century or overviews of Czec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Non-marine Molluscs Of Bulgaria
There are numerous species of molluscs living in the wild in Bulgaria. This list covers only the non-marine species. Freshwater gastropods Neritidae * ''Theodoxus danubialis'' (C. Pfeiffer, 1828)Dilian Georgiev & Zdravko Hubenov (2013). "Freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Bulgaria: an updated annotated checklist". Folia Malacologica 21(4): 237-263. DOI:10.12657/folmal.021.026 * '' Theodoxus fluviatilis'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Theodoxus pallasi'' Linholm, 1924 * ''Theodoxus transversalis'' (C. Pfeiffer, 1828) Viviparidae * ''Viviparus acerosus'' (Bourguignat, 1862) * ''Viviparus contectus'' (Millet, 1813) * ''Viviparus viviparus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Melanopsidae * '' Melanopsis parreyssi'' Philippi, 1847 * '' Esperiana (Esperiana) esperi'' (A. Férussac, 1823) * '' Esperiana (Microcolpia) daudebartii'' (Prevost, 1821) * ''Holandriana holandrii'' (C. Pfeiffer, 1828) Pyrgulidae * '' Turricaspia (Laevicaspia) lincta'' (Milaschewitch, 1908) * '' Turricaspia (Clessiniola) vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
