Acicula fusca | |
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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.
Contents |
The shell of this species is long and narrow, attaining a maximum length of only 2 mm.[2]
This species lives in wet moss and leaf litter in woodlands on calcareous soils. Because it is minute, it is easily overlooked.