Lucilla singleyana

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Lucilla singleyana
Conservation status
NE
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Punctidae
Genus: Lucilla
Species: L. singleyana
Binomial name
Lucilla singleyana
(Pilsbry, 1890)
Synonyms
  • Helicodiscus (Hebetodiscus) singleyanus inermis H. B. Baker, 1929

Lucilla singleyana (Pilsbry, 1890) is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Punctidae, the dot snails.

The shell of this species is about 2 mm in width.

[edit] Distribution

This species is Holarctic in distribution.

[edit] Ecology

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

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 28 May 2007.
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