''Lucilla'' is a

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of very small air-breathing

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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 inclu ...

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s in the family

Helicodiscidae Helicodiscidae is a family (biology), family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea (according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), ...

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Species

The genus ''Lucilla'' includes the following species: * '' Lucilla inermis'' (H. B. Baker, 1929) * † '' Lucilla miocaenica'' Harzhauser, Neubauer & Esu in Harzhauser et al., 2015 * '' Lucilla nummus'' (Vanatta, 1900) * '' Lucilla scintilla'' (Lowe, 1852)Species in genus ''Lucilla''
AnimalBase. * '' Lucilla singleyana'' (Pilsbry, 1889) * † '' Lucilla subteres'' (Clessin, 1877) * † '' Lucilla victoris'' (Michaud, 1862)

References

* Climo, F.M. (1974). Description and affinities of the subterranean molluscan fauna of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 1: 247–284.

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Helicodiscidae Taxa named by Richard Thomas Lowe Gastropod genera {{Helicodiscidae-stub