Biology:Pyramidula (gastropod)
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Pupilloidei |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidulidae |
| Genus: | Pyramidula (Fitzinger, 1833)[1] |
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Pyramidula is a genus of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidulidae.[2]
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[3]
- Pyramidula chorismenostoma (Westerlund & Blanc, 1879), Balkans[3]
- Pyramidula conica Pilsbry & Hirase, 1902, Japan [4]
- Pyramidula euomphalus (Blanford, 1861), India [4]
- Pyramidula gracilitesta van Benthem Jutting, 1959
- Pyramidula halyi (Jousseaume, 1894), Sri Lanka[4]
- Pyramidula humilis (Hutton, 1838), India [4]
- Pyramidula jaenensis (Clessin, 1882), Iberian peninsula[3]
- Pyramidula javana (Möllendorff, 1897)
- Pyramidula kobayashii Kuroda & Hukuda, 1944
- Pyramidula kuznetsovi Schileyko & Balashov, 2012, Nepal[4]
- Pyramidula micra Pilsbry, 1927
- Pyramidula przevalskii Lindholm 1922, northwest China [5]
- Pyramidula pusilla (Vallot, 1801), Europe[3][5] and Asia[5]
- Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801), Mediterranea[3] and maybe south of Central Asia[5]
- Pyramidula saxatilis (Hartmann, 1842)
- † Pyramidula shantungensis Yen, 1969
- Synonyms
- Pyramidula alternata (Say, 1817): synonym of Anguispira alternata (Say, 1817) (unaccepted combination)
- † Pyramidula antonini (Michaud, 1862): synonym of † Acanthinula antonini (Michaud, 1862)
- Pyramidula asteriscus (Morse, 1857): synonym of Planogyra asteriscus (Morse, 1857) (unaccepted combination)
- Pyramidula cockerelli Pilsbry, 1898: synonym of Discus shimekii (Pilsbry, 1890) (junior synonym)
- Pyramidula elrodi Pilsbry, 1900: synonym of Oreohelix elrodi (Pilsbry, 1900) (original combination)
- Pyramidula laosensis Saurin, 1953: synonym of Krobylos laosensis (Saurin, 1953) (original combination)
- † Pyramidula lecontei Stearns, 1902: synonym of † Discus lecontei (Stearns, 1902) (new combination)
- Pyramidula mamillata Andreae, 1904 †: synonym of Pleurodiscoides mamillatus (Andreae, 1904) † (new combination)
- Pyramidula patagonica Suter, 1900: synonym of Radiodiscus patagonicus (Suter, 1900)
- Pyramidula pauper (A. Gould, 1859): synonym of Discus pauper (A. Gould, 1859) (unaccepted combination)
- Pyramidula perspectiva (Say, 1817): synonym of Discus patulus (Deshayes, 1832) (junior homonym of Helix perspectiva Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1816; synonym)
- Pyramidula picta G. H. Clapp, 1920: synonym of Anguispira picta (G. H. Clapp, 1920)
- † Pyramidula ralstonensis Cockerell, 1914: synonym of † Discus ralstonensis (Cockerell, 1914) (new combination)
- Pyramidula randolphii Dall, 1895: synonym of Punctum randolphii (Dall, 1895) (original combination)
- † Pyramidula recurrecta (Oppenheim, 1890): synonym of † Pfefferiola recurrecta (Oppenheim, 1890)
- Pyramidula striatella (J. G. Anthony, 1840): synonym of Discus whitneyi (Newcomb, 1864) (junior synonym)
- Pyramidula strigosa (A. Gould, 1846): synonym of Oreohelix strigosa (A. Gould, 1846) (unaccepted combination)
- † Pyramidula subteres (Clessin, 1877): synonym of † Lucilla subteres (Clessin, 1877)
- Pyramidula umbilicata (Montague, 1803), Iberian peninsula and British Isles:[3] synonym of Pyramidula pusilla (Vallot, 1801) (junior subjective synonym)
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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 (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
- Habe, T. (1956). Anatomical Studies on the Japanese Land Snails (7). Venus (Japanese Journal of Malacology). 19(2): 109-117
- Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71–78.
External links
- Fitzinger, L.J. (1833). Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben. Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreichs's unter der Enns, 3: 88-122. Wien
- Pyramidula at AnimalBase
- Image of two live individuals in situ
Wikidata ☰ Q7263371 entry
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