Lucilla (gastropod)

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Lucilla
Lucilla singleyana shell.jpg
Five shells of Lucilla singleyana , scale bar is in mm
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Punctoidea
Family: Helicodiscidae
Genus: Lucilla
Lowe, 1852 [1]
Type species
Helix scintillaR. T. Lowe, 1852
Synonyms
  • HebetodiscusH. B. Baker, 1929
  • HydrophreaClimo, 1974

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

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Species

The genus Lucilla includes the following species:

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References

  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. 1 2 3 (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. 1 2 Species in genus Lucilla. AnimalBase.