''Acanthinula aculeata'' is a
species of minute, air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
, a
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk or
micromollusk
A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also ...
in the family
Valloniidae.
Description
For terms see gastropod shell.
The
1.9-2.1 mm. shell is slightly higher than wide and brown in colour. The periostracum bears ribs ( elevated, radial ridges) with characteristic spines. The aperture is circular. The animal is grey on the dorsum and tentacles. The foot and sole margin are white.
Animalbase (Welter-Schultes)
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Distribution
This species is found in List of molluscs recorded in Bulgaria, Bulgaria, the List of molluscs recorded in the Czech Republic, Czech Republic, List of molluscs of Estonia, Estonia, List of molluscs recorded in Poland, Poland, the List of molluscs recorded in the Netherlands, Netherlands, List of molluscs recorded in Slovakia, Slovakia, List of non-marine molluscs of Great Britain, Great Britain, List of non-marine molluscs of Ireland, Ireland, List of non-marine molluscs of Ukraine, Ukraine[Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. ''Journal of Conchology''. 41 (1): 91-109.] and elsewhere.
References
External links
''Acanthinula aculeata''
at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
''Acanthinula aculeata''
images at Encyclopedia of Life
Valloniidae
Gastropods described in 1774
Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller
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