Acicula fusca
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| Acicula fusca | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
| Family: | Aciculidae |
| Genus: | Acicula |
| Species: | A.fusca |
| Binomial name | |
| Acicula fusca (Montagu, 1803)[1] |
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Acicula fusca is a minute species of land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk, a micromollusk, in the family Aciculidae.
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[edit] Shell description
The shell of this species is long and narrow, attaining a maximum length of only 2 mm.[2]
[edit] Habitat
This species lives in wet moss and leaf litter in woodlands on calcareous soils. Because it is minute, it is easily overlooked.
[edit] References
- ^ Montagu G. (1803). Testacea Britannica, or natural history of British shells. pp. I-XXXVIII [= 1-38], 1-606, [1-4], pl. 1-16. London.
- ^ Colin Little, (1983) The colonization of land: origins and adaptations of terrestrial animals, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, ISBN 978-0-521-25218-8 | ISBN 0-521-25218-0.
[edit] External links
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- Acicula fusca Species account and photograph at Mollusc Ireland.
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