Pagodulina pagodula

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Pagodulina pagodula
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Pagodulina pagodula pagodula shell (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Pagodulinidae
Genus: Pagodulina
Species:
P. pagodula
Binomial name
Pagodulina pagodula
(Des Moulins, 1830) [1]

Pagodulina pagodula is a species of minute land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk, or micromollusk, in the family Pagodulinidae, and the superfamily Pupilloidea. [2]

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Pagodulina pagodula is the type species of the genus Pagodulina.

Subspecies

The genus and the species name both mean little pagoda, a reference to the shape of the shell.

Synonyms

Shell description

The shells of this snail species are minute, about 3 mm in height, barrel-shaped or skep-shaped, with a flared and somewhat ear-shaped aperture.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Alpine. [3] It occurs in the following countries:

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References

  1. Des Moulins C. (1830). "Description d'une nouvelle espèce vivante de Pupa, du Périgord". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux  [ fr ]4: 158-163, plate 1.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pagodulina pagodula (Des Moulins, 1830). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1003474 on 2021-11-26
  3. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  4. Beata M. Pokryszko. "Pagodulina pagodula (Des Moulins, 1830)". Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk.