Pyramidula (gastropod)

Pyramidula
Five shells of Pyramidula rupestris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Pupilloidei
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Pyramidulidae
Genus: Pyramidula
(Fitzinger, 1833)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cratere Porro, 1838
  • Helix (Pyramidula) Fitzinger, 1833
  • Patula (Pyramidula) Fitzinger, 1833
  • Pyramidula (Pyramidula) Fitzinger, 1833
  • Pyramidula (Pyramidulops) Habe, 1956
  • Pyramidulops Habe, 1956

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:

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

  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. ^ a b c d e f Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.
  4. ^ a b c d e 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. ^ a b c d (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.

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