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Hawaiia minuscula
Five shells of Hawaiia minuscula, scale bar is in mm
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Gastrodontoidea
Family:	Pristilomatidae
Genus:	Hawaiia
Species:	H. minuscula
Binomial name
Hawaiia minuscula (Amos Binney, 1840)

Hawaiia minuscula, common name the minute gem or minute gem snail, is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pristilomatidae.

Distribution

The indigenous distribution of this snail species is: North America.

• Utah (Hawaiia minuscula minuscula and Hawaiia minuscula neomexicana)

The non-indigenous distribution includes:

• Australia
• Czech Republic as a "hothouse alien"
• Great Britain as a "hothouse alien"

References

1. Binney A. (1840) A monograph of the helices inhabiting the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 3 (4): 421-438, Pl. XI, XX-XXV .
2. "Hawaiia minuscula". Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Archived from the original on 30 December 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
3. "Hawaiia neomexicana". Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Archived from the original on 31 December 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
4. Hawaiia minuscula (Binney). http://www.ento.csiro.au, Last Updated: 19 September 2004, accessed 9 December 2008.
5. (in Czech) Mácha S. (1988) "Další nový druh měkkýše v našich sklenících - Hawaia minuscula (Binney, 1840)". Časopis Slezského Muzea (A), Slezské muzeum Opava, Opava, 37(1): 63-64.

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