Paralaoma servilis

Paralaoma servilis
	Five shells of Paralaoma servilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Punctoidea
Family:	Punctidae
Genus:	Paralaoma
Species:	P. servilis
Binomial name
	Paralaoma servilis; (Shuttleworth, 1852)
Synonyms
	Pleuropunctum micropleuros; Toltecia pusilla; Paralaoma caputspinulae;

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

^ ^a ^b ^c 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: [1]

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[Wronski_2010-1] 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.

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