Multidentula is a genus of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Enidae.

Multidentula
A shell of Multidentula ovularis. Height of the shell is 5.1 mm.
Scientific classification
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clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra
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Multidentula

Synonyms
  • Bollingeria Forcart, 1940
  • Chondrula (Multidentula) Lindholm, 1925 (original rank)
  • Improvisa Schileyko, 1978
  • Senaridenta Schileyko, 1978
  • Tokatia Hudec, 1972

Species

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Species within the genus Multidentula include:

References

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  1. ^ Lindholm (1925). Arch. Molluskenk. 57: 30.
  • Lindholm, W. A. (1925). Nachtrag zur Synonymie einiger Gattungen der Enidae. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 57 (4): 140–142. Frankfurt am Main
  • Schileyko, A.A. (1978). Issledovanie tipovykh vidov nekotorykh taksonov rodovoj gruppy v semejstve Buliminidae (= Enidae) (Gastropoda). 3. Vidy Kryma i Kavkaza. Voprosy sistemy semejstva. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 57 (6): 834–850. Moskva. A study of type species in some taxa of the generic group in the family Buliminidae (= Enidae) (Gastropoda). 3. Species of Crimea and Caucasus. Problems of taxonomy of the family].
  • Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.