Biology:Paralaoma servilis

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Short description: Species of gastropod


Paralaoma servilis
Paralaoma-servilis 03.jpg
Five shells of Paralaoma servilis
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P. servilis
Binomial name
Paralaoma servilis
(Shuttleworth, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Pleuropunctum micropleuros
  • Toltecia pusilla
  • Paralaoma caputspinulae

Paralaoma servilis is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Punctidae, the dot snails.

Distribution

This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands outside its native range including:

  • Great Britain
  • Uganda[1]
  • Kenya[1]
  • Tanzania[1]
  • Belgium

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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.

2. Van den Neucker T. & Ronsmans J. (2015). The globally invasive Paralaoma servilis (Gastropoda: Punctidae) reported for the first time in Belgium. Journal of Conchology 42(1):95-96. PDF

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3201294 entry