''Pyramidula'' is a

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of very small, air-breathing

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s, terrestrial

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s or

micromollusk A micromollusc is a shelled mollusc which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine molluscs, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater molluscs also ...

s in the family

Pyramidulidae Pyramidulidae is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pyramidulidae Kennard & B. B. Woodward, 1914. Accessed through: World R ...

.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 ''Pyramidula'' is the

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of the family Pyramidulidae.

Species

The

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

in the genus ''Pyramidula'' is '' Pyramidula rupestris''. Species in the genus ''Pyramidula'' include: * '' Pyramidula cephalonica'' (Westerlund, 1898),

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Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. ''A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae)''. Basteria 60: 71-78. * '' Pyramidula chorismenostoma'' (Westerlund & Blanc, 1879),

* '' Pyramidula conica'' Pilsbry & Hirase, 1902,

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* '' Pyramidula euomphalus'' (Blanford, 1861),

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* '' Pyramidula gracilitesta'' van Benthem Jutting, 1959 * '' Pyramidula halyi'' (Jousseaume, 1894),

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

* '' Pyramidula humilis'' (Hutton, 1838),

* '' Pyramidula jaenensis'' (Clessin, 1882),

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* '' Pyramidula javana'' (Möllendorff, 1897) * '' Pyramidula kobayashii'' Kuroda & Hukuda, 1944 * '' Pyramidula kuznetsovi'' Schileyko & Balashov, 2012,

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

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. * '' Pyramidula micra'' Pilsbry, 1927 * '' Pyramidula przevalskii'' Lindholm 1922, northwest

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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) * '' Pyramidula pusilla'' (Vallot, 1801),

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and

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* '' Pyramidula rupestris'' ( Draparnaud, 1801), Mediterranea and maybe south of

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* '' 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),

and

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: synonym of ''Pyramidula pusilla'' (Vallot, 1801) (junior subjective synonym)

References

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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

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7263371 Gastropod genera Pyramidulidae

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