Platyla | |
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Six shells of Platyla polita | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
Family: | Aciculidae |
Genus: | Platyla Moquin-Tandon, 1856 [1] |
Type species | |
Acme dupuyi Paladilhe, 1868 | |
Synonyms | |
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Platyla is a genus of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Aciculidae. [2]
Species within the genus Platyla include:
Hydrobiidae, commonly known as mud snails, is a large cosmopolitan family of very small freshwater and brackish water snails with an operculum; they are in the order Littorinimorpha.
The Aciculidae are a family of minute land snails which have opercula. In other words, Aciculidae are terrestrial operculate gastropods. Even though Aciculidae are land snails, they live in rather wet conditions, among mosses and dead leaves and they have sometimes been described as "winkles come ashore".
Bythinella is a genus of very small freshwater snails, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Bythinellidae.
Platyla foliniana is a species of very small land snail in the family Aciculidae.
Platyla maasseni is a species of very small land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Aciculidae. This species is endemic to Serbia and Montenegro.
Platyla peloponnesica is a species of very small land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Aciculidae. This species is endemic to Greece.
Pseudamnicola is a genus of small brackish water snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pseudamnicolinae of the family Hydrobiidae.
Renea is a genus of air-breathing land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Aciculidae.
Renea gormonti is a species of land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Aciculidae. This species is endemic to France.
Renea paillona is a species of land snail in the family Aciculidae. It is native to France and Italy.
Vitrea is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pristilomatidae.
Platyla polita is a species of very small land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Aciculidae.
Pagodulina is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pagodulinidae.
Acicula is a genus of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Aciculidae.
Moitessieriidae is a family of small freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Truncatelloidea.
Islamia is a genus of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.
Agardhiella is a genus of terrestrial gastropods belonging to the family Agardhiellidae.