Truncatella pulchella
Truncatella pulchella | |
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A shell of Truncatella pulchella[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Truncatellidae |
Subfamily: | Truncatellinae |
Genus: | Truncatella |
Species: | T. pulchella |
Binomial name | |
Truncatella pulchella Pfeiffer, 1839 | |
Synonyms | |
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Truncatella pulchella is a species of very small land snail that lives at the edge of the sea, a gastropod mollusk in the family Truncatellidae. This species lives on coastlines in the tropical western Atlantic.
Distribution
The distribution of this species includes:
- Florida
- Caribbean coast of Mexico
- Bermuda
- Bahamas
- Cuba
- Jamaica
- Puerto Rico
- Virgin Islands
- Brazil
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 6.5 mm.[2]
Habitat
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m, and the maximum recorded depth is 0 m.[2]
References
External links
- Truncatella pulchella. Malacolog.
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