Renea paillona | |
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Shell of Renea paillona (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
Family: | Aciculidae |
Genus: | Renea |
Species: | R. paillona |
Binomial name | |
Renea paillona Boeters & Gittenberger, 1989 | |
Renea paillona is a species of land snail in the family Aciculidae. It is native to France and Italy. [1] [2]
This snail lives in moist deciduous forest habitat under leaf litter and ivy. It is known from only four locations around Nice and just over the border in Italy. It may be threatened by urbanization in the area. [1]
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Platyla foliniana is a species of very small land snail in the family Aciculidae.
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Renea is a genus of air-breathing land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Aciculidae.
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