Vallonia tenuilabris

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Vallonia tenuilabris
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Drawing: three views of a shell of Vallonia tenuilabris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Valloniidae
Genus: Vallonia
Species:
V. tenuilabris
Binomial name
Vallonia tenuilabris
(A.Braun, 1843)
Synonyms [1]

Helix pulchella var. tenuilabris Braun, 1843

Vallonia tenuilabris is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail that is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Valloniidae.

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Distribution

Vallonia tenuilabris was described for the first time in the loess of Wiesbaden, Germany. [2] It is only in the past few decades that its recent occurrence in Central Asia has been recognised. [2]

Recent distribution of Vallonia tenuilabris include:

Description

The width of the shell is 3 mm. [1] The height of the shell is 1.8 mm. [1]

Ecology

Vallonia tenuilabris is adapted to the cold. [2]

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References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [2]

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Species summary for Vallonia tenuilabris". Animalbase, last modified 27 July 2008, accessed 1 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Meng S. & Hoffmann M. H. (2009). "Pupilla loessica Ložek 1954 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupillidae) – “A Living Fossil” in Central Asia?". Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart Quaternary Science Journal 58(1): 55–69. doi : 10.3285/eg.58.1.03.
  3. Balashov I. & Kijashko P. (2017). "Relic land snails in the Caucasian glacial refugium: a first non-fossil record of Vallonia tenuilabris from Western Eurasia". Journal of Conchology 42(5): 327–332.