Paralaoma servilis
| Paralaoma servilis | |
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| Five shells of Paralaoma servilis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
| Family: | Punctidae |
| Genus: | Paralaoma |
| Species: | P. servilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Paralaoma servilis (Shuttleworth, 1852) | |
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Paralaoma servilis is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Punctidae, the dot snails.
Distribution
This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands outside its native range including:
References
- 1 2 3 Wronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(1): 87-100. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp048.
2. Van den Neucker T. & Ronsmans J. (2015). The globally invasive Paralaoma servilis (Gastropoda: Punctidae) reported for the first time in Belgium. Journal of Conchology 42(1):95-96. PDF
External links
- AnimalBase page for this species at:
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