Pyramidula rupestris explained

Pyramidula rupestris is a species of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidulidae.^[1]

The variety Pyramidula rupestris var. nylanderi Morse, 1920is a synonym of Planogyra asteriscus (Morse, 1857)

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]

References

• Gittenberger, E. & Bank, R.A. (1996). A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidellidae). Basteria, 60 (1/3): 71–78. Leiden
• Kerney, M.P., Cameron, R.A.D. & Jungbluth, J-H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Biologen und Naturfreunde, 384 pp., 24 plates.
• Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates
• Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Image of two live individuals in situ
• Draparnaud, J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116
• Bourguignat, J.-R. (1852). Testacea novissima quæ Cl. de Saulcy in itinere per Orientem annis 1850 et 1851, collegit. pp. [1], 5-31; Lutetiæ: Baillière

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1002794 on 2022-03-15
2. Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.
3. 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.
4. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=1201 Pyramidula rupestris