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Orculella
Orculella is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orculidae. The genus Orculella occurs in the whole Mediterranean region. The richest areas in terms of species are Turkey and the Middle East, the Aegean Islands (mainly Crete) and Libya (Cyrenaica). A few species inhabit Southern Spain (O. bulgarica), Sicily (O. templorum) and northeastern Africa (O. tingitana).
Species in the genera Schileykula and Orculella are indistinguishable based on shell characters only. They differ however in the genitalia, primarily in the presence (Orculella) or absence (Schileykula) of a penial appendix.
19 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Orculella ignorata
speciesOrculella ignorata
Orculella critica
speciesOrculella critica
Orculella templorum
speciesOrculella templorum
Orculella sirianocoriensis
speciesOrculella sirianocoriensis
Orculella bulgarica
speciesOrculella bulgarica
Orculella ruderalis
speciesOrculella ruderalis
Orculella aragonica
speciesOrculella aragonica
Orculella diensis
speciesOrculella diensis
Orculella fodela
speciesOrculella fodela
Orculella cretiminuta
speciesOrculella cretiminuta
Orculella cretioreina
speciesOrculella cretioreina
Orculella franciscoi
speciesOrculella franciscoi
Orculella scalaris
speciesOrculella scalaris
Orculella cretimaxima
speciesOrculella cretimaxima
Orculella creantirudis
speciesOrculella creantirudis
Orculella creticostata
speciesOrculella creticostata
Orculella astirakiensis
speciesOrculella astirakiensis
Orculella cretilasithi
speciesOrculella cretilasithi
Orculella exaggerata
speciesOrculella exaggerata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 90506.