Lucilla (gastropod)

Lucilla is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Helicodiscidae.[2]

Lucilla
Five shells of Lucilla singleyana, scale bar is in mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Punctoidea
Family: Helicodiscidae
Genus: Lucilla
Lowe, 1852[1]
Type species
Helix scintilla R. T. Lowe, 1852
Synonyms
  • Hebetodiscus H. B. Baker, 1929
  • Hydrophrea Climo, 1974

Species

The genus Lucilla includes the following species:

  • Lucilla inermis (H. B. Baker, 1929)
  • Lucilla miocaenica Harzhauser, Neubauer & Esu in Harzhauser et al., 2015
  • Lucilla nummus (Vanatta, 1900)
  • Lucilla scintilla (Lowe, 1852)[2][3]
  • Lucilla singleyana (Pilsbry, 1889)[2][3]
  • Lucilla subteres (Clessin, 1877)
  • Lucilla victoris (Michaud, 1862)

References

  1. Lowe R. T. 1852. Brief diagnostic notices of new Maderan land shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2) 9 (50): 112-120, 275-279. London.
  2. (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
  3. Species in genus Lucilla. AnimalBase.
  • Climo, F.M. (1974). Description and affinities of the subterranean molluscan fauna of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 1: 247–284.


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