''Praticolella griseola'' is a species of

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

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 ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

in the family Polygyridae.

Distribution

The distribution of ''Praticolella griseola'' includes Cuba"Mollusca"
. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011. and Costa Rica. The non-indigenous distribution of ''Praticolella griseola'' includes Martinique.(1 January 2009)
"2008 Collecting Trip in Martinique"
. accessed 3 January 2011.

Ecology

''Praticolella griseola'' is a tree dwelling species.Rios O. M. & Quinta M. H. (2010). "Larval Feeding Habits of the Cuban Endemic Firefly ''Alecton discoidalis'' Laporte (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)". '' Psyche'' 2010, Article ID 149879, 5 pages, . Predators of ''Praticolella griseola'' include larvae of the firefly ''

Alecton discoidalis ''Alecton discoidalis'' is a species of firefly in the beetle family Lampyridae, commonly known as the Cuban endemic firefly. The larvae of this species are predators on both pulmonate and operculate land snails. ''Alecton discoidalis'' is the t ...

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References

Polygyridae Gastropods described in 1841 {{Polygyridae-stub