Multidentula

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
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Enoidea
Family:	Enidae
Subfamily:	Eninae
Tribe:	Multidentulini
Genus:	Multidentula Lindholm, 1925
Synonyms
Bollingeria Forcart, 1940 Chondrula (Multidentula) Lindholm, 1925 (original rank) Improvisa Schileyko, 1978 Senaridenta Schileyko, 1978 Tokatia Hudec, 1972

Species

Species within the genus Multidentula include:

• Multidentula lamellifera (Rossmässler, 1858)
• Multidentula nachicevanjensis (Hudec, 1972)
• Multidentula ovularis (Olivier, 1801)
• Multidentula pupoides (Krynicki, 1833)
• Multidentula reducta Bank, Menkhorst & Neubert, 2016
• Multidentula ridens (Nägele, 1906)
• Multidentula squalina (L. Pfeiffer, 1848)
• Multidentula stylus (L. Pfeiffer, 1848)

References

• 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.