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Urbasommatophora J. B. Burch, 1962
Reference: Malacologia, 1(1): 67
Remarks: Original spelling Ur-Basommatophora.
Spelling emended by Harry (1964:
376), and defined as hypothetical taxon of
the Pulmonata, "immediately ancestral to the
Ellobiidae and Chilinidae".
VAGiNACEABIainville, 1818
Reference: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles,
^0.2^4
Remarks: Original spelling (vernacular) "Vaginacées".
Latinized by Herrmannsen (1849
[in 1 846-1 852]: 672). Established at unspec-
ified rank, containing the genera "Vaginelle",
"Ciéodore", "Cymbulie".
Vaginuloidea Hoffmann, 1925 [25 February]
Reference: Jenaische Zeitschrift Naturwissenschaft,
6^.2^9
Remarks: Established as a suborder, contain-
ing the family Vaginulidae only.
Valvatoidei Sitnikova & Starobogatov, 1982
[after 20 May]
Reference:
841
Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 61(6):
Remarks: Established as a suborder, contain-
ing the family Valvatidae only.
Vasopulmonata Plate, 1898
Reference: Zoologische Jahrbíjcher, Abt.
Anatomie und Ontogenie der Thiere, 1 1 : 272
Remarks: Established as a substitute name
for Stylommatophora.
Velutino(dei Golikov & Starobogatov, 1989
Reference: Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta,
187:73
Remarks: Established as a suborder of Calyptraeiformes,
containing the superfamily
Velutinoidea only.
Vermivora Gray, 1860 [October]
Reference: Annals and Magazine of Natural
History, ser. 3, 6: 267
Remarks: Established as a division of Pulmonata
Geophila containing the families Olea-
cinidae, Streptaxidae, and Testacellidae.
Vermivora F. Riedel, 2000
Reference: Berliner Geowissenschaftliche
Abhandlungen, ser. E, 32: 191, 195
Remarks: Taxon containing the suborders Cassina
and Ficina of the Neomesogastropoda
+ the order Neogastropoda.
BOUCHET&ROCROI
Veronicellida Minichev & Starobogatov, 1975
Reference: Vsesoiuznoe soveshchanie po
izucheniiu molliuskov, 5: 11
Remarks: Established as an order of Systellommatophora;
no contents given. Spelling
emended by Golikov & Starobogatov (1989:
69) to Veronicelliformes.
Vesceroconcha Salvini-Plawen, 1985
Reference: The Mollusca, 10: 136
Remarks: Glade containing Bellerophontida,
Gastropoda, and Siphonopoda. Spelling
emended by Haszprunar (1 988: 405) to Visceroconcha.
Vetigastropoda Salvini-Plawen, 1980
Reference: Malacologia, 19(2): 261
Remarks: Established as a suborder of the order
Archaeogastropoda, containing the superfamilies
Macluritoidea, Pleurotomarioidea,
Cocculinoidea, Trochoidea, and ?Murchiso-
nioidea. Used by Ponder & Lindberg (1997:
185) for an unranked clade containing Fissurelloidea,
Seguenzioidea, Trochoidea, Lep-
etelloidea, Bellerophontoidea, Pleurotomarioidea,
Haliotoidea, Scissurelloidea, and
Lepetodriloidea (but not Peltospiridae,
Neomphalidae, and Melanodrymia).
ViscEROCONCHA. See Vesceroconcha.
Visceroneura Rankin, 1979 [25 May]
Reference: Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences
Contributions, 116: 107
Remarks: Established as a suborder of the
order Acochlidioidea, containing the family
Livorniellidaeonly.
ViviPARiFORMEs Sitnikova & Starobogatov, 1982
[after 20 May]
Reference: Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 61(6): 840
Remarks: Established as an order of the superorder
Vivipariformii, containing the suborders
Viviparoidei and Valvatoidei. Also
used as superorder Vivipariformii, containing
the orders Vivipariformes and Cypraeiformes;
and suborder Viviparoidei,
containing the superfamilies Archimedielloidea,
Pomatioidea, Neocyclotoidea, and
Viviparoidea.
Volumina Bellermann, 1816
Reference: Gesellschaft naturforschender
Freunde zu Berlin, Magazin für die neuesten
Entdeckungen in der gesammten Naturkunde,
7 {2): 92, 118