Pagodulina pagodula

Pagodulina pagodula
Pagodulina pagodula pagodula shell (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Pagodulinidae
Genus: Pagodulina
Species:
P. pagodula
Binomial name
Pagodulina pagodula

Pagodulina pagodula is a species of minute land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk, or micromollusk, in the family Pagodulinidae, and the superfamily Pupilloidea.[2]

Pagodulina pagodula is the type species of the genus Pagodulina.

Subspecies
  • Pagodulina pagodula altilis Klemm, 1939
  • Pagodulina pagodula pagodula (Des Moulins, 1830)
  • Pagodulina pagodula principalis Klemm, 1939

The genus and the species name both mean little pagoda, a reference to the shape of the shell.

Synonyms
  • Pagodulina pagodula sparsa Pilsbry, 1924: synonym of Pagodulina sparsa Pilsbry, 1924 (basionym)
  • Pagodulina pagodula var. subdola Gredler, 1856: synonym of Pagodulina subdola (Gredler, 1856) (original combination and rank)

Shell description

The shells of this snail species are minute, about 3 mm in height, barrel-shaped or skep-shaped, with a flared and somewhat ear-shaped aperture.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Alpine.[3] It occurs in the following countries:

References

  1. ^ Des Moulins C. (1830). "Description d'une nouvelle espèce vivante de Pupa, du Périgord". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux [fr] 4: 158-163, plate 1.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pagodulina pagodula (Des Moulins, 1830). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1003474 on 2021-11-26
  3. ^ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  4. ^ Beata M. Pokryszko. "Pagodulina pagodula (Des Moulins, 1830)". Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
  • Kerney, M.P., Cameron, R.A.D. & Jungbluth, J-H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Biologen und Naturfreunde, 384 pp., 24 plates.
  • Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates.
  • Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017


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