Lucilla scintilla
| Lucilla scintilla | |
|---|---|
| NE[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
| Family: | Helicodiscidae |
| Genus: | Lucilla |
| Species: | L. scintilla |
| Binomial name | |
| Lucilla scintilla Lowe, 1852[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Helix (Lucilla) scintilla Lowe, 1852 | |
Lucilla scintilla is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Helicodiscidae.[3]
Lucilla scintilla is the type species of the genus Lucilla.
Distribution
The indigenous distribution for this species includes North America.
The non-indigenous distribution areas include:
Ecology
This species lives in soil, see soil-inhabitant. Technically this is known as being a terricol species.
References
- ↑ IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 18 June 2009.
- ↑ Lowe R. T. 1852. Brief diagnostic notices of new Maderan land shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2) 9 (50): 112-120, 275-279. London.
- ↑ (Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
- 1 2 Horsák M., Šteffek J., Čejka T., Ložek V. & Juřičková L. (2009). "Occurrence of Lucilla scintilla (R.T. Lowe, 1852) and Lucilla singleyana (Pilsbry, 1890) in the Czech and Slovak Republics – with remarks how to distinguish these two non-native minute snails". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 8: 24-27. Online serial at <http://mollusca.sav.sk> 18-June-2009.
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