''Platyla'' is a
genus
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of very small
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 ...
s with an
operculum,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
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
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s 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 ...
s in the family
Aciculidae
The Aciculidae are a family of minute land snails which have opercula (an operculum is a little door that closes the shell when the animal retracts into it). In other words, Aciculidae are terrestrial operculate gastropods.
Even though Aciculid ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Platyla Moquin-Tandon, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933919 on 2022-01-24]
Species
Species within the genus ''Platyla'' include:
* ''
Platyla albanica''
Subai, 2012
* † ''
Platyla alta''
(Clessin, 1911)
* ''
Platyla banatica''
(Rossmässler, 1842)
* † ''
Platyla beatricis''
(Gaál, 1910)
* † ''
Platyla callosa''
(O. Boettger, 1870)
* † ''
Platyla callosiuscula''
(Andreae, 1904)
* ''
Platyla callostoma''
(Clessin, 1911)
* ''
Platyla ceraunorum
''Platyla'' is a genus of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Aciculidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Platyla Moquin-Tandon, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of ...
''
A. Reischütz, N. Steiner-Reischütz & P. L. Reischütz, 2016
* ''
Platyla cryptomena''
(de Folin & Bérillon, 1877)
* ''
Platyla curtii''
(A. J. Wagner, 1912)
* ''
Platyla dupuyi''
(Paladilhe, 1868)
* ''
Platyla elisabethae''
(L. Pintér & Szigethy, 1973)
* † ''
Platyla eocaena''
(Oppenheim, 1895)
* † ''
Platyla falkneri''
Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
* ''
Platyla feheri''
Subai, 2009
* ''
Platyla foliniana''
(G. Nevill, 1879)
* ''
Platyla gracilis''
(Clessin, 1877)
* ''
Platyla hedionda''
Torres Alba, 2012
* ''
Platyla jankowskiana
''Platyla'' is a genus of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Aciculidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Platyla Moquin-Tandon, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of ...
''
(Jackiewicz, 1979)
* ''
Platyla jordai
''Platyla'' is a genus of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Aciculidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Platyla Moquin-Tandon, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of ...
''
Altaba, 2013
* † ''
Platyla klemmi
''Platyla'' is a genus of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Aciculidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Platyla Moquin-Tandon, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of ...
''
(Schlickum & Strauch, 1972)
* ''
Platyla lusitanica''
(D. T. Holyoak & Seddon, 1985)
* ''
Platyla maasseni''
Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
* † ''
Platyla manganellii''
Harzhauser, Neubauer & Esu in Harzhauser et al., 2015
* ''
Platyla merillaensis''
Quiñonero-Salgado, Ruiz Cobo & Rolán, 2017
* ''
Platyla microspira''
(Pini, 1885)
* ''
Platyla minutissima''
Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
* ''
Platyla orthostoma''
(Jackiewicz, 1979)
* ''
Platyla peloponnesica''
Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
* ''
Platyla perpusilla''
(Reinhardt, 1880)
* ''
Platyla pezzolii''
Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
* ''
Platyla pinteri''
(Subai, 1976)
* ''
Platyla polita
''Platyla polita'' is a species of very small land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Aciculidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Platyla polita (W. Hartmann, 1840). Accessed through: ...
''
(W. Hartmann, 1840)
* ''
Platyla procax''
Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
* ''
Platyla sardoa''
Cianfanelli, Talenti, Bodon & Manganelli, 2000
* ''
Platyla stussineri''
(O. Boettger, 1884)
* ''
Platyla subdiaphana''
(Bivona, 1839)
* † ''
Platyla subfusca''
(Flach, 1889)
* † ''
Platyla subpolita''
(Gottschick, 1921)
* ''
Platyla talentii''
Bodon & Cianfanelli, 2008
* ''
Platyla turcica''
Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989
* ''
Platyla wilhelmi''
(A. J. Wagner, 1910)
References
External links
Hesse P. (1917). Kritische Fragmente. XVIII. Nochmals Nomenklaturfragen. XVIII. Ein neues Subgenus von Acme. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 49 (3): 122-124. Frankfurt am MainBoeters, H. D.; Gittenberger, E. & Subai, P. (1989). Die Aciculidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Zoologische Verhandelingen. 252: 1-234. Leiden
Aciculidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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