Pyramidula (gastropod)
Pyramidula is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidulidae.
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| Genus: | Pyramidula |
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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.
- Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.
- 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.
- (in 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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