Acicula fusca

Acicula fusca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Aciculidae
Genus: Acicula
Species: A.fusca
Binomial name
Acicula fusca
(Montagu, 1803)[1]

Acicula fusca is a minute species of land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk, a micromollusk, in the family Aciculidae.

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Shell description

The shell of this species is long and narrow, attaining a maximum length of only 2 mm.[2]

Habitat

This species lives in wet moss and leaf litter in woodlands on calcareous soils. Because it is minute, it is easily overlooked.

References

  1. ^ Montagu G. (1803). Testacea Britannica, or natural history of British shells. pp. I-XXXVIII [= 1-38], 1-606, [1-4], pl. 1-16. London.
  2. ^ Colin Little, (1983) The colonization of land: origins and adaptations of terrestrial animals, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, ISBN 978-0-521-25218-8 | ISBN 0-521-25218-0.

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