Pagodulina pagodula | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
Family: | Orculidae |
Genus: | Pagodulina |
Species: | P. pagodula |
Binomial name | |
Pagodulina pagodula (Des Moulins, 1830)[1] |
Pagodulina pagodula is a species of minute land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk, or micromollusk, in the family Orculidae, and the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Pagodulina pagodula is the type species of the genus Pagodulina.
The genus and the species name both mean little pagoda, a reference to the shape of the shell.
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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 of this species is Alpine.[2] The species occurs in the following countries: