Orcula

Orcula
Adult and juvenile shells of Orcula dolium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Orculidae
Genus:	Orcula Troschel, 1846 [1]

Orcula is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orculidae.

Species

Species within the genus Orcula include:

• Orcula austriaca Zimmermann 1932
  • Orcula austriaca austriaca Zimmermann 1932
  • Orcula austriaca faueri Klemm 1967
  • Orcula austriaca goelleri Gittenberger 1978
  • Orcula austriaca pseudofuchsi Klemm 1967
• Orcula conica (Rossmässler 1837)
• Orcula dobrogica (Grossu 1986)
• Orcula dolium (Draparnaud 1801)
  • Orcula dolium dolium (Draparnaud 1801)
  • Orcula dolium brancsiki Clessin 1887
  • Orcula dolium cebratica Westerlund 1887
  • Orcula dolium edita Ehrmann 1933
• Orcula fuchsi
• Orcula pseudodolium

Further reading

• Hausdorf B. 1987. Zum Vorkommen der Gattung Orcula HELD in Griechenland (Gastropoda: Orculidae). Arch. Molluskenk., 118 (1/3): 51-55.

References

• Nomenclator Zoologicus info