''Renea paillona'' 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 ...
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 ...
. It is native to
France and
Italy.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Renea paillona Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1000394 on 2022-04-06]
Distribution
This snail lives in moist
deciduous forest habitat under leaf litter and ivy. It is known from only four locations around
Nice and just over the border in
Italy. It may be threatened by urbanization in the area.
References
* Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
Boeters, H. D.; Gittenberger, E. & Subai, P. (1989). Die Aciculidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Zoologische Verhandelingen. 252: 1-234. Leiden
paillona
Molluscs of Europe
Gastropods described in 1989
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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