''Acmella'' is a genus of minute,
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s with an
operculum,
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s, or
micromollusk
A micromollusc is a shelled mollusc which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine molluscs, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater molluscs also ...
s, in the family
Assimineidae
Assimineidae is a family (biology), family of small snails, also known as palmleaf snails, with an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Truncatelloidea. Many of these very small snails live in i ...
.
Species
It consists of the following species:
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Acmella nana'' Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015 (the smallest terrestrial snail, described in 2015)
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Acmella decolor''
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Acmella isseliana''
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Acmella minima''
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Acmella sutteri''
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Acmella taiwanica''
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Acmella cyrtoglyphe'' Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
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Acmella umbilicata'' Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
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Acmella polita'' Von Moellendorff, 1887
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Acmella ovoidea'' Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
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Acmella subcancellata'' Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
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Acmella striata'' Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
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Acmella tersa''
References
External links
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Assimineidae