Biology:Micractaeon
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Micractaeonidae Schileyko, 1999[2] |
| Genus: | Micractaeon Verdcourt, 1993[1] |
| Species: | M. koptawelilensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Micractaeon koptawelilensis (Germain, 1934)
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| Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Micractaeon koptawelilensis is a species of land snail, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Achatinoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[4]
Micractaeon koptawelilensis is the only species in the genus Micractaeon.[3] Micractaeon is the type genus of the family Micractaeonidae,[4] and Micractaeon is the only genus in the family Micractaeonidae.[citation needed] This family has no subfamilies.[4]
Distribution
The distribution of Micractaeon koptawelilensis includes tropical Africa: Ghana, Cameroon, eastern and southeastern Zaïre, Malawi, eastern Zambia,[3] Uganda,[5] Kenya[5] and Tanzania.[5]
The type locality is Mount Elgon, Kenya.[3]
Description
The width of the shell is 0.7-1.3 mm.[3] The height of the shell is 1.1-2.2 mm.[3]
Ecology
Micractaeon koptawelilensis inhabits forests.[3] These snails are found in leaf litter samples.[3]
Footnotes
- ↑ Verdcourt 1993, p. 82.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Schileyko 1999, pp. 435-564.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Bruggen & de Winter 1995, pp. 79-92.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel; Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Wronski & Hausdorf 2010, pp. 87-100.
References
- Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel; Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- Bruggen, A. C. van; de Winter, A. J. (1995). PDF "Notes on Micractaeon, a monotypic genus of African land snails (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Ferussaciidae?)". Zoologische Mededelingen 69 (7): 79–92. http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/150419 PDF.
- Schileyko, A. A. (1999). "Treatise on Recent Terrestrial Pulmonate Molluscs. Part 4". Ruthenica, Supplement 2 (4): 435–564. ISSN 0136-0027.
- Verdcourt, B. (1993). "A new genus and species of land snail, Micractaeon kakamegaensis, from Kakamega Forest, Kenya". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 121 (1–6): 82.
- Wronski, T.; Hausdorf, B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". Journal of Molluscan Studies 76 (1): 87–100. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp048.
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