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Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Columella is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Truncatellinidae, the whorl snails and allies. [2]
| Columella | |
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| Six shells of Columella edentula, scale bar in mm | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Truncatellinidae |
| Genus: | Columella Westerlund, 1878[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pupa inornata Michaud, 1831 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Columella is commonly classified within the Vertiginidae. However, as shown by Nekola & Coles (2016), the genus is not that closely related to the Vertiginidae, but may rather be affiliated with the Chondrinidae or form a pupilloid family of its own. A systematic revision is pending.[2]
Species within the genus Columella include:
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