Platyla polita explained

Platyla polita is a species of very small land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Aciculidae. ^[1]

Subspecies:

• Platyla polita polita (W. Hartmann, 1840)
• Platyla polita regina (Subai, 1977)

Distribution

This species is found in the Czech Republic,^[2] Slovakia,^[2] Poland, the Netherlands, Ukraine,^[3] in alluvial sediments of the Rhône River, France and others.

References

• Reinhardt, O. (1880). Die Acme-Arten des Banats und Siebenbürgens. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1880 (2): 45-47. Berlin
• Wagner, A. J. (1928). Studien zur Molluskenfauna der Balkanhalbinsel mit besonderer Berücksichtigung Bulgariens und Thraziens, nebst monographischer Bearbeitung einzelner Gruppen. Prace Zoologiczne Polskiego Panstwowego Muzeum Przyrodniczego [Annales Zoologici Musei Polonici Historiae Naturalis]. 6 (4): 263-399, pl. 10-23. Warszawa.
• Paulucci, M. (1881). Descrizione di una nuova specie del génère Acme. Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana. 7: 221-225.

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Platyla polita (W. Hartmann, 1840). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1003107 on 2022-01-26
2. Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
3. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine". Journal of Conchology 41(1): 91-109.