Columella columella explained

Columella columella is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Truncatellinidae, the vertigo snails and allies.^[1]

This species is not listed in the IUCN red list and not evaluated (NE) ^[2]

Subspecies: Columella columella alticola (Ingersoll, 1875)

Distribution

This species occurs in:

• Poland - critically endangered in southern Poland ^[3]
• Slovakia
• Utah, USA (Columella columella alticola)^[4]

References

• Kerney, M.P., Cameron, R.A.D. & Jungbluth, J-H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Biologen und Naturfreunde, 384 pp., 24 plates.
• Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates.
• Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017.

External links

• Schileyko, A. A. & Rymzhanov, T. S. (2013). Fauna of land mollusks (Gastropoda, Pulmonata Terrestria) of Kazakhstan and adjacent territories. Moscow-Almaty: KMK Scientific Press. 389 pp.

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. . 2021 . Columella columella . 1002833 . 21 September 2021.
2. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.. Cited 19 June 2007.
3. Web site: Columella columella (Martens, 1830) . Beata M. Pokryszko . Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
4. Web site: Columella columella alticola. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. May 18, 2017. December 30, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161230091327/http://dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov/rsgis2/Search/Display.asp?FlNm=colucolu. dead.