Carychium minimum
Carychium minimum | |
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Shell of Carychium minimum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
Family: | Ellobiidae |
Subfamily: | Carychiinae |
Genus: | Carychium |
Species: | C. minimum |
Binomial name | |
Carychium minimum O. F. Müller, 1774[1] | |
Carychium minimum is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.
Description
The shell is 1.6-2.2 mm. high x 0.9-1.1 mm. wide.It is wider than the shell of Carychium tridentatum. If the last whorl above the aperture is opened this shows the plica parietalis (a spiral ridge on the parietal region projecting into the interior of the shell) descending in a simple way downwards (see the figure below).
Distribution
This species occurs in European countries and islands including:
References
- ↑ Müller, O. F. 1774: Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. - pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniæ & Lipsiæ. (Heineck & Faber).
- ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
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