Truncatella pulchella
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| Truncatella pulchella | |
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| A shell of Truncatella pulchella[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Truncatellidae |
| Subfamily: | Truncatellinae |
| Genus: | Truncatella |
| Species: | T. pulchella |
| Binomial name | |
| Truncatella pulchella Pfeiffer, 1839 | |
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Truncatella pulchella is a species of very small land snail that lives at the edge of the sea, a gastropod mollusk in the family Truncatellidae. This species lives on coastlines in the tropical western Atlantic.
Distribution
The distribution of this species includes:
- Florida
- Caribbean coast of Mexico
- Bermuda
- Bahamas
- Cuba
- Jamaica
- Puerto Rico
- Virgin Islands
- Brazil
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 6.5 mm.[2]
Habitat
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m, and the maximum recorded depth is 0 m.[2]
References
- ↑ Walker B. (1928). "The terrestrial shell-bearing mollusca of Alabama". Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool. Misc. Pub. 18, 180 pp. (as Truncatella bilabiata)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
External links
- Truncatella pulchella. Malacolog.
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