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shells of Platyla polita (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Aciculidae
Genus:	Platyla
Species:	P. polita
Binomial name
*Platyla polita* (Hartmann, 1840)
Synonyms
Acicula (Platyla) polita (W. Hartmann, 1840) (unaccepted combination) † Acme (Acicula) diluviana Hocker, 1907 (junior synonym) Acme delpretei Paulucci, 1881 (junior synonym) Acme oedogyra Paladilhe, 1868 (original combination) Acme serbica Clessin, 1911 (junior synonym) Acme similis Reinhardt, 1880 (original combination) Acme similis bulgarica A. J. Wagner, 1928 (junior synonym) Acme transsilvanica A. J. Wagner, 1912 (junior synonym) Carychium lineatum C. Pfeiffer, 1828 (preoccupied) Cyclostoma lubricum Held, 1847 (junior synonym) Hyalacme beieri Käufel, 1930 (junior synonym) Platyla oedogyra (Paladilhe, 1868) (junior synonym) Platyla similis (Reinhardt, 1880) (junior synonym) Truncatella (Pupula) acicularis polita W. Hartmann, 1840 (original combination) Truncatella lubrica Held, 1847 (junior synonym)

Platyla polita is a species of very small land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Aciculidae.

Subspecies

Platyla polita polita (W. Hartmann, 1840)
Platyla polita regina (Subai, 1977)

Distribution

This species is found in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, the Netherlands, Ukraine, in alluvial sediments of the Rhône River, France and others.

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