''Platyla'' is a

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of very small

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,

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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 ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s or

micromollusc 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

Aciculidae The Aciculidae are a family (biology), family of small land snails that have operculum (gastropod), opercula (an operculum is a little door that closes the shell when the animal retracts into it). In other words, Aciculidae are Terrestrial mollus ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Platyla Moquin-Tandon, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933919 on 2022-01-24

Species

Species within the genus ''Platyla'' include: * '' Platyla albanica'' Subai, 2012 * † '' Platyla alta'' (Clessin, 1911) * '' Platyla banatica'' (Rossmässler, 1842) * † '' Platyla beatricis'' (Gaál, 1910) * † '' Platyla callosa'' (O. Boettger, 1870) * † '' Platyla callosiuscula'' (Andreae, 1904) * '' Platyla callostoma'' (Clessin, 1911) * † '' Platyla conica'' (Michaud, 1862) * '' Platyla cryptomena'' (de Folin & Bérillon, 1877) * '' Platyla curtii'' (A. J. Wagner, 1912) * '' Platyla dupuyi'' (Paladilhe, 1868) * '' Platyla elisabethae'' (L. Pintér & Szigethy, 1973) * † '' Platyla eocaena'' (Oppenheim, 1895) * † '' Platyla falkneri'' Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989 * '' Platyla feheri'' Subai, 2009 * '' Platyla foliniana'' (G. Nevill, 1879) * '' Platyla gracilis'' (Clessin, 1877) * '' Platyla hedionda'' Torres Alba, 2012 * '' Platyla jankowskiana'' (Jackiewicz, 1979) * '' Platyla jordai'' Altaba, 2013 * † '' Platyla klemmi'' (Schlickum & Strauch, 1972) * '' Platyla lusitanica'' (D. T. Holyoak & Seddon, 1985) * '' Platyla maasseni'' Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989 * † '' Platyla manganellii'' Harzhauser, Neubauer & Esu in Harzhauser et al., 2015 * '' Platyla merillaensis'' Quiñonero-Salgado, Ruiz Cobo & Rolán, 2017 * ''

Platyla microspira ''Platyla microspira'' is a species of very small land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Aciculidae. This species is found in Italy and Romania Romania is a country located at the cross ...

'' (Pini, 1885) * '' Platyla minutissima'' Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989 * '' Platyla orthostoma'' (Jackiewicz, 1979) * '' Platyla peloponnesica'' Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989 * '' Platyla perpusilla'' (Reinhardt, 1880) * '' Platyla pezzolii'' Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989 * '' Platyla pinteri'' (Subai, 1976) * ''

Platyla polita ''Platyla polita'' is a species of very small land snail with an operculum (gastropod), operculum, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Aciculidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Platyla pol ...

'' (W. Hartmann, 1840) * '' Platyla procax'' Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989 * '' Platyla sardoa'' Cianfanelli, Talenti, Bodon & Manganelli, 2000 * ''

Platyla similis ''Platyla'' is a genus of very small land snails with an operculum (gastropod), operculum, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Aciculidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Platyla Moquin-Tando ...

'' (Reinhardt, 1880) * '' Platyla stussineri'' (O. Boettger, 1884) * '' Platyla subdiaphana'' (Bivona, 1839) * † '' Platyla subfusca'' (Flach, 1889) * † '' Platyla subpolita'' (Gottschick, 1921) * '' Platyla talentii'' Bodon & Cianfanelli, 2008 * '' Platyla turcica'' Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989 * '' Platyla wilhelmi'' (A. J. Wagner, 1910) ;Synonyms: * ''Platyla ceraunorum'' A. Reischütz, N. Steiner-Reischütz & P. L. Reischütz, 2016: synonym of ''

'' (Reinhardt, 1880) (junior subjective synonym) * ''Platyla corpulenta'' Subai, 2009: synonym of '' Platyla procax'' Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1989 (junior subjective synonym) * ''Platyla oedogyra'' (Paladilhe, 1868): synonym of ''

'' (W. Hartmann, 1840) (junior synonym)

References

External links

Hesse P. (1917). Kritische Fragmente. XVIII. Nochmals Nomenklaturfragen. XVIII. Ein neues Subgenus von Acme. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 49 (3): 122-124. Frankfurt am Main

Boeters, H. D.; Gittenberger, E. & Subai, P. (1989). Die Aciculidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Zoologische Verhandelingen. 252: 1-234. Leiden
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