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Pupilla triplicata

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Pupilla triplicata
Six shells of Pupilla triplicata, scale bar in mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Pupillidae
Genus: Pupilla
Species:
P. triplicata
Binomial name
Pupilla triplicata
(Studer, 1820)[1]
Synonyms

Glischrus (Pupa) triplicata Studer, 1820

Pupilla triplicata is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae.

Distribution

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The distribution of this species is in Central and Southern Europe[2] and includes Southern Europe from the Pyrenees to the Alps, the Carpathians, Crimea, Northern Turkey, Transcaucasia and Central Asia to Lake Baikal.[3]

The species occurs in a number of countries including:

Pupilla triplicata has a scattered distribution, and populations in lower altitudes are threatened by habitat destruction.[3]

Drawing of apertural view of a shell of Pupilla triplicata

Description

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The shell of Pupilla triplicata is much smaller than Pupilla sterrii and the other Pupilla species.[3] The structure of the surface is finer.[3] Whorls are convex.[3] The cervical callus is present but not extremely strong.[3] There are usually 3 teeth in the aperture.[3]

The height of the shell is 2.2-2.8 (up to 4) mm.[3] The width of the shell is 1.4 mm (shell diameter should not exceed 1.4 mm).[3]

Ecology

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Pupilla triplicata lives in grass near limestone rocks, in dry and sunny habitats, often in limestone rock rubble with xerophilous vegetation.[3] It lives mainly between 300 and 1000 m, and in Switzerland up to 2600 m in altitude.[3]

References

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This article incorporates public domain text from reference [3].

  1. ^ (in German) Studer S. (1820). "Kurzes Verzeichniss der bis jetzt in unserm Vaterlande entdeckten Conchylien". Naturwissenschaftlicher Anzeiger der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 3(11): 83-90, 91-94. Bern.
  2. ^ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Species summary for Pupilla triplicata". AnimalBase. Last modified 15-04-2010, accessed 31 July 2010.
  4. ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine". Journal of Conchology 41(1): 91-109.