Pyramidula (gastropod)

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Pyramidula
Pyramidula rupestris shell.jpg
Five shells of Pyramidula rupestris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Pupilloidei
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Pyramidulidae
Genus: Pyramidula
(Fitzinger, 1833) [1]
Synonyms
  • CraterePorro, 1838
  • Helix (Pyramidula)Fitzinger, 1833
  • Patula (Pyramidula)Fitzinger, 1833
  • Pyramidula (Pyramidula)Fitzinger, 1833
  • Pyramidula (Pyramidulops)Habe, 1956
  • PyramidulopsHabe, 1956

Pyramidula is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidulidae. [2]

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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:

Synonyms

References

  1. 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.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pyramidula Fitzinger, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851193 on 2022-03-15
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.
  4. 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.
  5. 1 2 3 4 (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

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