Lucilla singleyana


Lucilla singleyana is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Helicodiscidae.
The shell of this species is about in width.

Original description

Lucilla singleyana was originally discovered and described by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1889.
Pilsbry's original text reads as follows:

Distribution

This species is Holarctic in distribution.
The indigenous distribution for this species includes North America.
Then non-indigenous distribution areas include:
This species was previously announced from the Czech Republic since 1988, but later in 2009 was all findings recognized as Lucilla scintilla.
This species has been introduced to New Zealand.

Ecology

This species lives in soil, see soil-inhabitant. Technically this is known as being a terricol species.