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| Acmella nana Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015[1]
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Acmella nana is a species of land snail discovered from Borneo, Malaysia, in 2015. It was described by Jaap J. Vermeulen of the JK Art and Science in Leiden, Thor-Seng Liew of the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah, and Menno Schilthuizen of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden.[1] It was named nana (Latin for "dwarf") due to its minute size. Measuring only 0.7 millimeters in size, it is the smallest known land snail as of 2015.[2][3] It surpasses the earlier record attributed to Angustopila dominikae, which is 0.86 mm in size, described from China in September 2015.[4][5]
- ^ a b Vermeulen, Jaap; Liew, Thor-Seng; Schilthuizen, Menno (2015). "Additions to the knowledge of the land snails of Sabah (Malaysia, Borneo), including 48 new species". ZooKeys (531): 1–139. doi:10.3897/zookeys.531.6097. PMC 4668911. PMID 26692803.
- ^ Geggel, Laura (2 November 2015). "Micro Mollusk Breaks Record for World's Tiniest Snail". LiveScience. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ Feltman, Rachel (3 November 2015). "World's tiniest land snail breaks a record made just weeks ago". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
- ^ Páll-Gergely, Barna; Hunyadi, András; Jochum, Adrienne; Asami, Takahiro (2015). "Seven new hypselostomatid species from China, including some of the world's smallest land snails (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Orthurethra)". ZooKeys (523): 31–62. doi:10.3897/zookeys.523.6114. PMC 4602296. PMID 26478698.
- ^ Sankar-Gorton, Eliza (4 November 2015). "Newly Discovered Land Snail Is The Tiniest In The World". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 9 November 2015.