Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Punctoidea Genus Lucilla Phylum Mollusca | Class Gastropoda Family Helicodiscidae Scientific name Lucilla singleyana Rank Species | |
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Similar Lucilla, Hawaiia minuscula, Cecilioides acicula, Helicodiscus, Cochlicopa lubricella | ||
Lucilla singleyana is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Helicodiscidae.
Contents
The shell of this species is about 2 mm in width.
Original description
Lucilla singleyana was originally discovered and described (under the name Zonites singleyanus) by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1889.
Pilsbry's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
Distribution
This species is Holarctic in distribution.
The indigenous distribution for this species includes North America.
Then non-indigenous distribution areas include:
This species was previously announced from the Czech Republic since 1988, but later in 2009 was all findings recognized as Lucilla scintilla.
This species has been introduced to New Zealand.
Ecology
This species lives in soil, see soil-inhabitant. Technically this is known as being a terricol species.