Truncatella pulchella

Truncatella pulchella is a species of very small land snail that lives at the edge of the sea, a gastropod mollusk in the family Truncatellidae. This species lives on coastlines in the tropical western Atlantic.

Truncatella pulchella
A shell of Truncatella pulchella[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Truncatellidae
Genus:	Truncatella
Species:	T. pulchella
Binomial name
Truncatella pulchella Pfeiffer, 1839
Synonyms
Truncatella bilabiata Pfeiffer, 1840 Acmea bilabiata (Pfeiffer, 1840) Truncatella capillacea Pfeiffer, 1859 [synonymy uncertain] Truncatella bahamensis Clench & Turner, 1948 Truncatella floridana Hubricht, 1983

Distribution

The distribution of this species includes:

• Florida
• Caribbean coast of Mexico
• Bermuda
• Bahamas
• Cuba
• Jamaica
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands
• Brazil

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 6.5 mm.^[2]

Habitat

The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m, and the maximum recorded depth is 0 m.^[2]

References

1. Walker B. (1928). "The terrestrial shell-bearing mollusca of Alabama". Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool. Misc. Pub. 18, 180 pp. (as Truncatella bilabiata)
2. Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

External links

• Truncatella pulchella. Malacolog.