Pupilla triplicata
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| Pupilla triplicata | |
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| Six shells of Pupilla triplicata, scale bar in mm | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Pupillidae |
| Genus: | Pupilla |
| Species: | P. triplicata |
| Binomial name | |
| Pupilla triplicata | |
| Synonyms | |
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Glischrus (Pupa) triplicata Studer, 1820 | |
Pupilla triplicata is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae.
The distribution of this species is in Central and Southern Europe[2] and includes Southern Europe from the Pyrenees to the Alps, the Carpathians, Crimea, Northern Turkey, Transcaucasia and Central Asia to Lake Baikal.[3]
The species occurs in a number of countries including:
- Lower concern in Switzerland[3]
- Endangered in Germany,[3] extinct in Rheinland-Pfalz[3]
- Vulnerable in Austria[3]
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- Poland
- Ukraine[4]
Pupilla triplicata has a scattered distribution, and populations in lower altitudes are threatened by habitat destruction.[3]
