Lucilla scintilla

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Lucilla scintilla
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shells of Lucilla scintilla
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Scientific classification
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
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L. scintilla
Binomial name
Lucilla scintilla
Lowe, 1852 [2]
Synonyms

Helix (Lucilla) scintilla Lowe, 1852

Lucilla scintilla is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Helicodiscidae. [3]

Contents

Lucilla scintilla is the type species of the genus Lucilla .

Distribution

The indigenous distribution for this species includes North America.

The non-indigenous distribution areas include:

Ecology

This species lives in soil, see soil-inhabitant. Technically this is known as being a terricol species.

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References

  1. IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 18 June 2009.
  2. 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.
  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.
  4. 1 2 Horsák M., Šteffek J., Čejka T., Ložek V. & Juřičková L. (2009). "Occurrence of Lucilla scintilla (R.T. Lowe, 1852) and Lucilla singleyana (Pilsbry, 1890) in the Czech and Slovak Republics – with remarks how to distinguish these two non-native minute snails". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca8: 24-27. Online serial at <http://mollusca.sav.sk> 18-June-2009.