''Euconulus alderi'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of small air-breathing

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 gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

, a terrestrial

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the family

Euconulidae Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea. This land snail family is closely allied to the Zonitidae, the glass snails. ...

, the hive snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Euconulus alderi (Gray, 1840). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1351966 on 2020-11-08

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including: *

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

* France * Sweden * the USA

References

* In Michigan

* USDA Forest Service info

* Reinhardt, O. (1883). Über die von den Herren Gebrüder Krause auf ihrer Reise gesammelten Pupa-, Hyalina- und Vallonia-Arten. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1883: 37-43. Berlin. * nvertEBase. (2018). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase (InvertEBase.org) project.

External links

''Euconulus alderi''
at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
Gray J.E. (1840). A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands by W. Turton. A new edition. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. i-ix, 1-324, plates 1-12

Horsáková, V., Nekola, J. C. & Horsák, M. (2020). Integrative taxonomic consideration of the Holarctic Euconulus fulvus group of land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora). Systematics and Biodiversity. 1-19.
Euconulidae Gastropods described in 1979 {{Euconulidae-stub