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Lucilla (gastropod)

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Lucilla
Five shells of Lucilla singleyana, scale bar is in mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicodiscidae
Genus: Lucilla
Lowe, 1852[1]
Type species
Helix scintilla
R. T. Lowe, 1852
Synonyms
  • Hebetodiscus H. B. Baker, 1929
  • Hydrophrea Climo, 1974

Lucilla is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Helicodiscidae.[2]

Species

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The genus Lucilla includes the following species:

References

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  1. ^ Lowe R. T. 1852. Brief diagnostic notices of new Maderan land shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2) 9 (50): 112-120, 275-279. London.
  2. ^ a b c (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
  3. ^ a b Species in genus Lucilla. AnimalBase.
  • Climo, F.M. (1974). Description and affinities of the subterranean molluscan fauna of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 1: 247–284.
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