Pyramidula rupestris
Pyramidula rupestris is a species of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidulidae.
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| Five views of a shell of Pyramidula rupestris | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra |
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| Species: | P. rupestris |
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| Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801)[1] | |
Shell description
The width of the shell is up to 2.7 mm, the height is up to 2.5 mm.[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in:
- The entire Mediterranean region[2]
- Dalmatia[2]
- Spain[3]
- The Alps[4]
- Northern Italy[2]
- Greece[2]
- Israel[2]
- Asia[4]
- Morocco[2]
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References
- Draparnaud J. P. R. 1801. Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. pp. [1-2], 1-116. Montpellier, Paris. (Renaud; Bossange, Masson & Besson).
- Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.
- Alberto Martínez-Ortí, Benjamín J. Gómez-Moliner & Carlos E. Prieto. 2007. El género Pyramidula Fitzinger 1833 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) en la Península Ibérica. The genus Pyramidula Fitzinger 1833 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in the Iberian Peninsula. Iberus, Sociedad Española de Malacología, 25 (1): 77-87.
- Pyramidula rupestris. AnimalBase, accessed 13 December 2008.
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