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Lucilla scintilla

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Species of gastropod

Lucilla scintilla
shells of Lucilla scintilla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicodiscidae
Genus: Lucilla
Species: L. scintilla
Binomial name
Lucilla scintilla
Lowe, 1852
Synonyms

Helix (Lucilla) scintilla Lowe, 1852

Lucilla scintilla is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Helicodiscidae.

Lucilla scintilla is the type species of the genus Lucilla.

Distribution

The indigenous distribution for this species includes North America.

The non-indigenous distribution areas include:

Ecology

This species lives in soil, see soil-inhabitant. Technically this is known as being a terricol species.

References

  1. Lowe R. T. 1852. Brief diagnostic notices of new Maderan land shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2) 9 (50): 112-120, 275-279. London.
  2. (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. ". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
  3. ^ Horsák M., Šteffek J., Čejka T., Ložek V. & Juřičková L. (2009). "Occurrence of Lucilla scintilla (R.T. Lowe, 1852) and Lucilla singleyana (Pilsbry, 1890) in the Czech and Slovak Republics – with remarks how to distinguish these two non-native minute snails". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 8: 24-27. Online serial at <http://mollusca.sav.sk> 18-June-2009.

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Taxon identifiers
Lucilla scintilla


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