Pagodulina pagodula

Pagodulina pagodula is a species of minute land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk, or micromollusk, in the family Pagodulinidae, and the superfamily Pupilloidea.^[2]

Pagodulina pagodula
Pagodulina pagodula pagodula shell (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Pagodulinidae
Genus:	Pagodulina
Species:	P. pagodula
Binomial name
Pagodulina pagodula (Des Moulins, 1830)[1]

Pagodulina pagodula is the type species of the genus Pagodulina.

Subspecies

• Pagodulina pagodula altilis Klemm, 1939
• Pagodulina pagodula pagodula (Des Moulins, 1830)
• Pagodulina pagodula principalis Klemm, 1939

The genus and the species name both mean little pagoda, a reference to the shape of the shell.

Synonyms

• Pagodulina pagodula sparsa Pilsbry, 1924: synonym of Pagodulina sparsa Pilsbry, 1924 (basionym)
• Pagodulina pagodula var. subdola Gredler, 1856: synonym of Pagodulina subdola (Gredler, 1856) (original combination and rank)

Shell description

The shells of this snail species are minute, about 3 mm in height, barrel-shaped or skep-shaped, with a flared and somewhat ear-shaped aperture.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Alpine.^[3] It occurs in the following countries:

• Poland – critically endangered in southern Poland^[4]
• Slovakia