Platyla is a genus of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Aciculidae.[2]

Platyla
Six shells of Platyla polita
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Aciculidae
Genus: Platyla
Moquin-Tandon, 1856[1]
Type species
Acme dupuyi
Paladilhe, 1868
Synonyms
  • Acicula (Hyalacme) P. Hesse, 1917
  • Acicula (Platyla) Moquin-Tandon, 1856 (unaccepted rank)
  • Acme (Hyalacme) P. Hesse, 1917 (junior synonym)
  • Acme (Platyla) Moquin-Tandon, 1856 (original rank)
  • Hyalacme P. Hesse, 1917

Species

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Species within the genus Platyla include:

Synonyms
  • Platyla ceraunorum A. Reischütz, N. Steiner-Reischütz & P. L. Reischütz, 2016: synonym of Platyla similis (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 Platyla polita (W. Hartmann, 1840) (junior synonym)

References

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  1. ^ Moquin-Tandon A. 1855. Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France contenant des études générales sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés. Tome second. pp. 1-646, atlas 1-92, Pl. I-LIV [= 1-54]. Paris. (Baillière).
  2. ^ 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
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