''Orcula dolium'' is a
species
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of very small air-breathing
land snail
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, a
terrestrial
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pulmonate
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gastropod
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mollusk
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in the family
Orculidae
Orculidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails; terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Orculidae Pilsbry, 1918. Accessed through: World Register of Mar ...
.
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MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Orcula dolium (Draparnaud, 1801). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050528 on 2021-11-14]
;Subspecies:
* ''Orcula dolium dolium''
(Draparnaud 1801)
* ''Orcula dolium brancsiki''
Clessin 1887
* ''Orcula dolium cebratica''
Westerlund 1887
* ''Orcula dolium edita''
Ehrmann 1933
* ''Orcula dolium globulosa''
Locard 1880
* ''Orcula dolium gracilior''
Zimmermann 1932
* ''Orcula dolium gracilis''
(Hazay 1885)
* ''Orcula dolium implicata''
Clessin 1887
* ''Orcula dolium infima''
Ehrmann 1933
* ''Orcula dolium kimakowiczi''
(Brancsik 1887)
* ''Orcula dolium major''
Westerlund 1887
* ''Orcula dolium minima''
(Brancsik 1887)
* ''Orcula dolium minor''
(Moquin-Tandon 1855)
* ''Orcula dolium obesa''
(Westerlund 1887)
* ''Orcula dolium par''
(Westerlund 1887)
* ''Orcula dolium pfeifferi''
(Moquin-Tandon 1855)
* ''Orcula dolium pseudogularis''
A. J. Wagner 1912
* ''Orcula dolium quadriplicata''
(Locard 1880)
* ''Orcula dolium raxae''
Gittenberger 1978
* ''Orcula dolium tatrica''
A. J. Wagner 1922
* ''Orcula dolium titan''
(Brancsik 1887)
* ''Orcula dolium triplicata''
Clessin 1887
* ''Orcula dolium tumida''
(Hazay 1885)
* ''Orcula dolium uniplicata''
(Potiez & Michaud 1838)
;Synonym:
* ''Orcula dolium f. aragonica''
Westerlund, 1897: synonym of ''
Orculella aragonica''
(Westerlund, 1897) (basionym)
Distribution
This species occurs in the following countries:
*
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
- in Moravia, vulnerable (VU)
Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic
cited 19 September 2008
* Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
* and others
References
* Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16th, 2017.
* Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates.
* Groenenberg, D. S. J., Harl, J., Duijm, E. & Gittenberger, E. (2017). The complete mitogenome of Orcula dolium (Draparnaud, 1801); ultra-deep sequencing from a single long-range PCR using the Ion-Torrent PGM. Hereditas. 154:7: 1-10.
* Gittenberger, E. (1978). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pupillacea VIII. Einiges über Orculidae. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 163: 1-44, pl. 1-4. Leiden
* Kerney, M.P., Cameron, R.A.D. & Jungbluth, J-H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Biologen und Naturfreunde, 384 pp., 24 plates.
External links
Draparnaud, J.-P.-R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116.
Josef Harl & Anatoly Schileyko & Helmut Sattmann (2011) - Types of the extant taxa of the landsnail genus Orcula HELD 1837 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Orculidae); Archiv für Molluskenkunde 140(2):175-199; DOI:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/140/175-199
Orcula
Gastropods described in 1801
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