Pyramidula przevalskii
Pyramidula przevalskii | |
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Paralectotype of P. przevalskii in collection of Zoological Museum of Moscow University | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
Family: | Pyramidulidae |
Genus: | Pyramidula |
Species: | P. przevalskii |
Binomial name | |
Pyramidula przevalskii Lindholm, 1922[1] | |
Pyramidula przevalskii is a species[2] of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidulidae.
Shell description
The diameter of the shell is up to 3.25 mm, the height is up to 3.0 mm at 4.5 whorls.[1][2]
Distribution
This species is known only from one location in Keriya (Hotan, China).[1][2] The type series was collected by Nikolay Przhevalsky in 1885.[1][2] There are currently (2012) no other findings.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Lindholm W. 1922. On a new form of Pyramidula rupestris Drap. (Gastropoda Pulmonata) from Western China. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo muzeja RAN. 23: 255–256.
- 1 2 3 4 5 (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)
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