| Pyramidula | |
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| Five shells of Pyramidula rupestris | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Mollusca | 
| Class: | Gastropoda | 
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia | 
| Order: | Stylommatophora | 
| Infraorder: | Pupilloidei | 
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea | 
| Family: | Pyramidulidae | 
| Genus: | Pyramidula (Fitzinger, 1833)[1]  | 
| Synonyms | |
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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
 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.
 - 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.
 - 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
- 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
 
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