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{{Short description|Species of land snail}}
{{Orphan|date=June 2024}}

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{{Taxobox
| name = ''Bensonella plicidens''
| image = Bensonella plicidens.png
| image_caption = A live ''Bensonella plicidens''
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Mollusca]]
| classis = [[Gastropoda]]
| unranked_superfamilia =
clade [[Heterobranchia]]<br/>
clade [[Euthyneura]]<br/>clade [[Panpulmonata]]<br/>
clade [[Eupulmonata]]<br/>
clade [[Stylommatophora]]<br/>
clade [[Orthurethra]]
| superfamilia = [[Pupilloidea]]
| familia = [[Gastrocoptidae]]
| subfamilia = [[Hypselostomatinae]]
| genus = ''[[Bensonella]]''
| species = '''''B. plicidens'''''
| binomial = ''Bensonella plicidens''
| binomial_authority = ([[William Henry Benson|Benson]], 1849)
| synonyms_ref = <ref>Bouchet, P. (2016). ''Bensonella plicidens'' (Benson, 1849). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=885086 on 2018-01-07</ref>
| synonyms = ''Pupa plicidens'' Benson, 1849 (original combination)
}}

'''''Bensonella plicidens''''' is a [[species]] of very small air-breathing [[land snail]], a [[terrestrial animal|terrestrial]] [[pulmonate]] [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]] in the family [[Gastrocoptidae]].

== Distribution ==
This species occurs in [[List of non-marine molluscs of Japan|Japan]].<ref name="Wada 2013">Wada S. & Chiba S. (2013). "The Dual Protection of a Micro Land Snail against a Micro Predatory Snail". ''[[PLoS ONE]]'' '''8'''(1): e54123. {{doi|10.1371/journal.pone.0054123}}.</ref>

== Description ==
The width of the shell is 2&nbsp;mm.<ref name="Wada 2013"/> The [[aperture (mollusc)|aperture]] of the shell is protruded.<ref name="Wada 2013"/> There are 13-15 denticles within the aperture about 400 μm from the [[lip (gastropod)|lip]].<ref name="Wada 2013"/>

Views of a shell of ''Bensonella plicidens'':
{|
|[[File:Bensonella plicidens shell.png|left|thumb|apertural view]]
|[[File:Bensonella plicidens shell 2.png|left|thumb|left lateral view]]
|[[File:Bensonella plicidens shell 3.png|left|thumb|right lateral view]]
|}
[[File:Bensonella plicidens shell 4.png|thumb|detail of the aperture]]

== Ecology ==
Potential predators of ''Bensonella plicidens'' includes a carnivorous snail ''[[Sinoennea iwakawa]]''.<ref name="Wada 2013"/> ''[[Indoennea bicolor]]'' is a predator of ''Bensonella plicidens'' in laboratory conditions.<ref name="Wada 2013"/>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Bensonella plicidens}}

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[[Category:Stylommatophora]]
[[Category:Taxa named by William Henry Benson]]


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