Pyramidula cephalonica

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Pyramidula cephalonica
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shells of Pyramidula cephalonica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Pyramidulidae
Genus: Pyramidula
Species:
P. cephalonica
Binomial name
Pyramidula cephalonica
(Westerlund, 1898) [1]

Pyramidula cephalonica is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidulidae.

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Similar species

The strongly flattened shell is similar to Pyramidula pusilla in terms of height/width index, but has coarser growth stripes and a wider navel.

Characteristics

The right-handed shell is low-conical. It measures up to 1.8 mm in height and 2.6 mm in width. The 4½ whorls increase regularly and are separated from each other by a deep seam. They are well rounded at the periphery. The last whorl is bluntly bent at the base. The open umbilicus takes up at least a third of the shell width. The mouth is transversely ovoid and relatively small. The mouth margin is straight, folded over in the area of ​​the umbilicus.

The shell is yellowish brown. The surface of the teleoconch has clear growth stripes that can be reinforced almost like ribs. The protoconch is almost smooth. [2]

Distribution of the species. Pyramidula-cephalonica-map-eur-nm-moll.jpg
Distribution of the species.


Distribution

The distribution area extends from northern Dalmatia, Bulgariato Greece and western Turkey. [3] There they live on calcareous subsoil.

References

  1. Westerlund C. A. 1898. Novum specilegium malacologicum. Neue Binnenconchylien aus der paläarktischen Region. Ezhegodnik. Zoologicheskago Muzeja Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk [Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg] 3 (2): 155-183. S.-Peterburg.
  2. Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.
  3. Ivailo Dedov, Peter Subai: Five new records of terrestrial gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) for Bulgarian fauna. Historia naturalis bulgarica, 20: 103–106, 2012 PDF