Biology:Hawaiia minuscula

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Hawaiia minuscula
Hawaiia minuscula shell.jpg
Five shells of Hawaiia minuscula, scale bar is in mm
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H. minuscula
Binomial name
Hawaiia minuscula
(Amos Binney, 1840)[1]

Hawaiia minuscula, common name the minute gem or minute gem snail, is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pristilomatidae.

Distribution

The indigenous distribution of this snail species is: North America.

  • Utah (Hawaiia minuscula minuscula and Hawaiia minuscula neomexicana)[2][3]

The non-indigenous distribution includes:

  • Australia[4]
  • Czech Republic as a "hothouse alien"[5]
  • Great Britain as a "hothouse alien"

References

  1. Binney A. (1840) A monograph of the helices inhabiting the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 3 (4): 421-438, Pl. XI, XX-XXV [= 11, 20-25].
  2. "Hawaiia minuscula". Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Archived from the original on December 30, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161230091354/http://dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov/rsgis2/Search/Display.asp?FlNm=hawaminu. Retrieved May 18, 2017. 
  3. "Hawaiia neomexicana". Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Archived from the original on December 31, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161231025601/http://dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov/rsgis2/Search/Display.asp?FlNm=hawaneom. Retrieved May 19, 2017. 
  4. Hawaiia minuscula (Binney). http://www.ento.csiro.au, Last Updated: 19 September 2004, accessed 9 December 2008.
  5. (in Czech) Mácha S. (1988) "Další nový druh měkkýše v našich sklenících - Hawaia minuscula (Binney, 1840)". Časopis Slezského Muzea (A), Slezské muzeum Opava, Opava, 37(1): 63-64.

Wikidata ☰ Q3170131 entry