Orcula dolium explained

Orcula dolium is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orculidae.^[1]

Subspecies:

• Orcula dolium dolium (Draparnaud 1801)
• Orcula dolium brancsiki Clessin 1887
• Orcula dolium cebratica Westerlund 1887
• Orcula dolium edita Ehrmann 1933
• Orcula dolium globulosa Locard 1880
• Orcula dolium gracilior Zimmermann 1932
• Orcula dolium gracilis (Hazay 1885)
• Orcula dolium implicata Clessin 1887
• Orcula dolium infima Ehrmann 1933
• Orcula dolium kimakowiczi (Brancsik 1887)
• Orcula dolium major Westerlund 1887
• Orcula dolium minima (Brancsik 1887)
• Orcula dolium minor (Moquin-Tandon 1855)
• Orcula dolium obesa (Westerlund 1887)
• Orcula dolium par (Westerlund 1887)
• Orcula dolium pfeifferi (Moquin-Tandon 1855)
• Orcula dolium pseudogularis A. J. Wagner 1912
• Orcula dolium quadriplicata (Locard 1880)
• Orcula dolium raxae Gittenberger 1978
• Orcula dolium tatrica A. J. Wagner 1922
• Orcula dolium titan (Brancsik 1887)
• Orcula dolium triplicata Clessin 1887
• Orcula dolium tumida (Hazay 1885)
• Orcula dolium uniplicata (Potiez & Michaud 1838)

Synonym:

• Orcula dolium f. aragonica Westerlund, 1897: synonym of Orculella aragonica (Westerlund, 1897) (basionym)

Distribution

This species occurs in the following countries:

• Czech Republic - in Moravia, vulnerable (VU)^[2]
• Slovakia
• and others

References

• Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017.
• Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates.
• Groenenberg, D. S. J., Harl, J., Duijm, E. & Gittenberger, E. (2017). The complete mitogenome of Orcula dolium (Draparnaud, 1801); ultra-deep sequencing from a single long-range PCR using the Ion-Torrent PGM. Hereditas. 154:7: 1–10.
• Gittenberger, E. (1978). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pupillacea VIII. Einiges über Orculidae. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 163: 1-44, pl. 1–4. Leiden
• 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.

External links

• Draparnaud, J.-P.-R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116.
• Josef Harl & Anatoly Schileyko & Helmut Sattmann (2011) - Types of the extant taxa of the landsnail genus Orcula HELD 1837 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Orculidae); Archiv für Molluskenkunde 140(2):175-199; DOI:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/140/175-199

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Orcula dolium (Draparnaud, 1801). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050528 on 2021-11-14
2. Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic, cited 19 September 2008