Pagodulina pagodula
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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Species: | P. pagodula
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Pagodulina pagodula (Des Moulins, 1830)[1]
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Pagodulina pagodula is a species of minute land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk, or micromollusk, in the family Orculidae, and the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Pagodulina pagodula is the type species of the genus Pagodulina.
The genus and the species name both mean little pagoda, a reference to the shape of the shell.
Shell description
The shells of this snail species are minute, about 3 mm in height, barrel-shaped or skep-shaped, with a flared and somewhat ear-shaped aperture.
Distribution
The distribution of this species is Alpine.[2] It occurs in the following countries:
- Poland – critically endangered in southern Poland [3]
- Slovakia
References
- ^ Des Moulins C. (1830). "Description d'une nouvelle espèce vivante de Pupa, du Périgord". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 4: 158-163, plate 1.
- ^ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- ^ Beata M. Pokryszko. "Pagodulina pagodula (Des Moulins, 1830)". Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
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