Hawaiia minuscula, common name the minute gem or minute gem snail, is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pristilomatidae.
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| Five shells of Hawaiia minuscula, scale bar is in mm | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
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| Species: | H. minuscula
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| Hawaiia minuscula (Amos Binney, 1840)[1]
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Distribution
editThe indigenous distribution of this snail species is: North America.
The non-indigenous distribution includes:
- Australia[4]
- Czech Republic as a "hothouse alien"[5]
- Great Britain as a "hothouse alien"
References
edit- ^ Binney A. (1840) A monograph of the helices inhabiting the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 3 (4): 421-438, Pl. XI, XX-XXV [= 11, 20-25].
- ^ "Hawaiia minuscula". Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Archived from the original on 30 December 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ "Hawaiia neomexicana". Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Archived from the original on 31 December 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
- ^ Hawaiia minuscula (Binney). http://www.ento.csiro.au, Last Updated: 19 September 2004, accessed 9 December 2008.
- ^ (in Czech) Mácha S. (1988) "Další nový druh měkkýše v našich sklenících - Hawaia minuscula (Binney, 1840)". Časopis Slezského Muzea (A), Slezské muzeum Opava, Opava, 37(1): 63-64.
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