Acmella (gastropod)
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Acmella is a genus of minute, land snails with an operculum, gastropod mollusks, or micromollusks, in the family Assimineidae.
Species
[edit]It consists of the following species:
- Acmella nana Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015 (the smallest terrestrial snail, described in 2015)
- Acmella decolor
- Acmella isseliana
- Acmella minima
- Acmella sutteri
- Acmella taiwanica
- Acmella cyrtoglyphe Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
- Acmella umbilicata Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
- Acmella polita Von Moellendorff, 1887
- Acmella ovoidea Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
- Acmella subcancellata Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
- Acmella striata Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
- Acmella tersa
References
[edit]- ^ Blanford W. T. (1869). "On the animal and operculum of Georissa, W. Blanf., and on its relations to Hydrocena, Parreyss; with a note on Hydrocena tersa, Bens. and H. milium, Bens.". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)3: 173-179. page 178.