Lucilla (gastropod)

Lucilla
Five shells of Lucilla singleyana, scale bar is in mm
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Helicodiscidae
Genus:	Lucilla Lowe, 1852[1]
Type species
Helix scintilla R. T. Lowe, 1852
Synonyms
Hebetodiscus H. B. Baker, 1929 Hydrophrea Climo, 1974

Lucilla is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Helicodiscidae.[2]

Species

The genus Lucilla includes the following species:

• Lucilla inermis (H. B. Baker, 1929)
• † Lucilla miocaenica Harzhauser, Neubauer & Esu in Harzhauser et al., 2015
• Lucilla nummus (Vanatta, 1900)
• Lucilla scintilla (Lowe, 1852)[2][3]
• Lucilla singleyana (Pilsbry, 1889)[2][3]
• † Lucilla subteres (Clessin, 1877)
• † Lucilla victoris (Michaud, 1862)

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. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
3. Species in genus Lucilla. AnimalBase.

• Climo, F.M. (1974). Description and affinities of the subterranean molluscan fauna of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 1: 247–284.

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