Platyla
Encyclopedia
Platyla is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of very small land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s with an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...

, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 gastropod mollusks in the family Aciculidae
Aciculidae
The Aciculidae are a family of minute land snails which have opercula. In other words, Aciculidae are terrestrial operculate gastropods....

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Species

Species within the genus Platyla include:
  • Platyla foliniana
    Platyla foliniana
    Platyla foliniana is a species of gastropod in the Aciculidae family. It is found in France and Italy. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:...

  • Platyla lusitanica
    Platyla lusitanica
    Platyla lusitanica is a species of gastropod in the Aciculidae family. It is endemic to Portugal.-References:* Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 7 August 2007....

  • Platyla maasseni
  • Platyla microspira
    Platyla microspira
    Platyla microspira is a species of gastropod in the Aciculidae family. It is found in Italy and Romania....

  • Platyla orthostoma
    Platyla orthostoma
    Platyla orthostoma is a species of gastropod in the Aciculidae family. It is endemic to Bulgaria....

  • Platyla peloponnesica
    Platyla peloponnesica
    Platyla peloponnesica is a species of land snail, gastropod in the Aciculidae family. It is endemic to Greece.- External links :* http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=2817...

  • Platyla polita
    Platyla polita
    Platyla polita is a species of land gastropod in the Aciculidae family.-Distribution:It is found in the Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, Slovakia and others....

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