''Truncatella pulchella'' is a
species 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 ...
that lives at the edge of the sea, a
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 in the family
Truncatellidae
Truncatellidae, common name the "looping snails", is a family of small amphibious snails, with gills and an operculum, semi-marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks.
Shell description
This family of snails have small shells which lose th ...
. This species lives on coastlines in the tropical western Atlantic.
Distribution
The distribution of this species includes
*
Florida
* Caribbean coast of Mexico
*
Bermuda
*
Bahamas
*
Cuba
*
Jamaica
*
Puerto Rico
*
Virgin Islands
*
Brazil
Description
The maximum recorded
shell length is 6.5 mm.
[Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". '' PLoS ONE'' 5(1): e8776. .]
Habitat
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m, and the maximum recorded depth is 0 m.
References
External links
''Truncatella pulchella'' Malacolog.
Truncatellidae
Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean
Taxa named by Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer
Gastropods described in 1839
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