Vitrea gittenbergeri (Pinter & A. Riedel, 1983)

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Pristilomatidae
Genus: Vitrea

Characterisation

Troglobiont

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Megali Grava
Region: Ionioi Nisoi / Regional unit: Kerkyra / Municipality: Kerkyra / Closest settlement: Loutses

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Cave in a quarry between Kassiopi and Ag. Spyridon, Riedel 1992, Beron 2016, Karakasi et al. 2024, Mylonas et al. 2025
  Region: Ionioi Nisoi / Regional unit: Kerkyra / Municipality: Kerkyra / Closest settlement: Kassiopi
• Spilaio Megali Grava, Pinter & Riedel 1983, Riedel 1990, Riedel 1992, Riedel 1996, Beron 2016, Karakasi et al. 2024, Mylonas et al. 2025
  Region: Ionioi Nisoi / Regional unit: Kerkyra / Municipality: Kerkyra / Closest settlement: Loutses

Comments

Only known from 2 caves in Kerkyra Island, but annotated that the presence of the genus requires confirmation (Riedel 1992).  The species, previously assigned to the genus Lindbergia, is now reclassified under the genus Vitrea (Mylonas et al. 2025).

IUCN Red List

CR - Critically Endangered

Greece's Red Data Book

CR - Critically Endangered

Protection status

• There is no species-specific legal framework for protection.

Check Databases

Fauna Europea

GBIF

IUCN Red List

PESI

Species references

• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Karakasi D, Paragamian K, Mylonas M, Vardinoyannis K 2024. What`s crawling in the dark? An annotated list of gastropods in Greek caves.. Subterranean Biology 48: 73-116. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.48.113383
• Mylonas M, Goudeli G, Triantis KA, Vardinoyannis K. 2025. Taxonomical revision of Lindbergia gittenbergeri Pintér et Riedel, 1983, with reassignment to Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833 (Gastropoda: Pristilomatidae). Folia Malacologica. 2025. doi:10.12657/folmal.033.021
• Pinter, L. & Riedel, A. 1983. Über eine neue Lindbergia - Art vοn Kerkyra, Griechenland (Gastropoda: Zonitidae). Zool. Meded., Leiden, 57 (11): 101-103.
• Riedel, A. 1990. Neue und bekannte Zonitidae (Gastropoda) aus Griechenland. Ann. Zool. (Wars.), 43 (25): 493-534.
• Riedel, A. 1992. The Zonitidae (sensu lato) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) of Greece. Fauna Graeciae V. Hellenic Zoological Society. pp. 194.
• Riedel, A. 1996. Die in West-Paläarktis unterirdisch lebenden Zonitidae sensu lato (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora). Fragm. faun., 39 (24): 363-390.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Vitrea gittenbergeri (Pinter & A. Riedel, 1983). In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 27.10.2025, Accessed 18.04.2026