Pyramidula (gastropod)
| Pyramidula | |
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| Five shells of Pyramidula rupestris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidulidae |
| Genus: | Pyramidula (Fitzinger, 1833)[1] |
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Pyramidula is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidulidae.
Pyramidula is the type genus of the family Pyramidulidae.
Species
The type species in the genus Pyramidula is Pyramidula rupestris.
Species in the genus Pyramidula include:
- Pyramidula cephalonica (Westerlund, 1898), Balkans[2]
- Pyramidula chorismenostoma (Westerlund & Blanc, 1879), Balkans[2]
- Pyramidula conica Pilsbry & Hirase, 1902, Japan[3]
- Pyramidula euomphalus (Blanford, 1861), India[3]
- Pyramidula halyi (Jousseaume,1894), Sri-Lanka[3]
- Pyramidula humilis (Hutton, 1838), India[3]
- Pyramidula jaenensis (Clessin, 1882), Iberian peninsula[2]
- Pyramidula kuznetsovi Schileyko & Balashov, 2012, Nepal[3]
- Pyramidula przevalskii Lindholm 1922, northwest China[4]
- Pyramidula pusilla (Vallot, 1801), Europe[2][4] and Asia[4]
- Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801), Mediterranea[2] and maybe south of Central Asia[4]
- Pyramidula umbilicata (Montague, 1803), Iberian peninsula and British Isles[2]
References
- ↑ Fitzinger L. I. 1833. Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben. Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreich's unter der Enns 3: 88-122. Wien.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Schileyko A.A. & Balashov I.A. 2012. Pyramidula kuznetsovi sp. nov. – a new species of land mollusсs from Nepal (Pulmonata, Pyramidulidae). Ruthenica. 22 (1): 41-45.
- 1 2 3 4 (Russian) Balashov I.A. & Gural-Sverlova N.V. 2011. Terrestrial molluscs of the genus Pyramidula (Pyramidulidae, Pulmonata, Gastropoda) in the East Europe, Central Asia and adjacent territories. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 90 (12): 1423-1430 (in Russian)
Further reading
- Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.
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