Spermodea lamellata
Encyclopedia
Spermodea lamellata is a species
of minute European land snail
, a terrestrial
gastropod mollusc, or micromollusc, in the family
Valloniidae
.
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of minute European land snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
, a 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 mollusc, or micromollusc, in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Valloniidae
Valloniidae
Valloniidae is a taxonomic family of small and minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.-Anatomy:...
.
Distribution
This species occurs in areas which include:- Denmark
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Czech Republic
- Northern Germany
- Netherlands - extinct
- Norway
- Poland - isolated locality
- Portugal - isolated localities in Serra de BussacoSerra de BussacoSerra do Bussaco, is a mountain range in Portugal, formerly included in the province of Beira. The highest point in the range is the Ponta de Bussaco , which commands a magnificent view over the Serra da Estrela, the Mondego River valley and the Atlantic Ocean.The Serra includes the buildings of a...
mountains (in Beira AltaBeira AltaBeira Alta Province was a Portuguese province in the north of Portugal.Vast plateaus, river valleys, mountains, and castles abound in Beira Alta.Formerly it was part of the Beira Province.The two main cities were Guarda and Viseu...
), and in SintraSintraSintra is a town within the municipality of Sintra in the Grande Lisboa subregion of Portugal. Owing to its 19th century Romantic architecture and landscapes, becoming a major tourist centre, visited by many day-trippers who travel from the urbanized suburbs and capital of Lisbon.In addition to... - Sweden
- and other areas