Pagodulina pagodula | |
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Pagodulina pagodula pagodula shell (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Pagodulinidae |
Genus: | Pagodulina |
Species: | P. pagodula
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Binomial name | |
Pagodulina pagodula (Des Moulins, 1830)[1]
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Pagodulina pagodula is a species of minute land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk, or micromollusk, in the family Pagodulinidae, and the superfamily Pupilloidea.[2]
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.
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.
The distribution of this species is Alpine.[3] It occurs in the following countries: