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Alpine moss snail

Pupilla alpicola

Classification

Pupilla pratensis is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae. This taxon was elevated to species level in 2009. This species is considered as a synonym of Pupilla alpicola (Charpentier, 1837) Taxonomy Pupilla pratensis was originally described as a variety of Pupilla muscorum by German malacologist Stefan Clessin in 1871.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Switzerland · 149France · 18Luxembourg · 2Germany · 1