Biology:Pyramidula cephalonica

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Pyramidula cephalonica
Pyramidula-cephalonica 01.jpg
shells of Pyramidula cephalonica
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
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.

Shell description

The width of the shell is up to 2.6 mm, the height is up to 1.8 mm.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including:

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. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.

Wikidata ☰ Q7263372 entry