Pupilla loessica

Pupilla loessica
Temporal range: early Pleistocene–Recent[1]
Drawing of apertural view of a shell of Pupilla loessica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Pupillidae
Genus: Pupilla
Species:
P. loessica
Binomial name
Pupilla loessica
Ložek, 1954[2]

Pupilla loessica is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae.

Pupilla loessica is a significant glacial index species for the Pleistocene in Central and Eastern Europe and also in parts of NorthWestern Europe.[1] It lives as extant species in Central Asia.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Meng 2009 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ (in Czech) Ložek V. (1954). "Noví měkkýši československého pleistocénu (Neue Mollusken aus dem tschechoslowakischen Pleistozän). Vertigo pseudosubstriata sp. n., Pupilla muscorum densegyrata ssp. n. a Pupilla loessica sp. n." Anthropozoikum 3(1953): 327–342, Tab. 1.