Pagodulina pagodula

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Pagodulina pagodula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Orculidae
Genus: Pagodulina
Species: P. pagodula
Binomial name
Pagodulina pagodula
(Des Moulins, 1830)

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

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

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.

It is not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 19 June 2007.


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