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Pyramidula przevalskii

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Species of gastropod

Pyramidula przevalskii
Paralectotype of P. przevalskii in collection of Zoological Museum of Moscow University
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Pyramidulidae
Genus: Pyramidula
Species: P. przevalskii
Binomial name
Pyramidula przevalskii
Lindholm, 1922

Pyramidula przevalskii is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidulidae.

Shell description

The diameter of the shell is up to 3.25 mm, the height is up to 3.0 mm at 4.5 whorls.

Distribution

This species is known only from one location in Keriya (Hotan, China). The type series was collected by Nikolay Przhevalsky in 1885. There are currently (2012) no other findings.

References

  1. ^ Lindholm W. 1922. On a new form of Pyramidula rupestris Drap. (Gastropoda Pulmonata) from Western China. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo muzeja RAN. 23: 255–256.
  2. ^ (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)
Taxon identifiers
Pyramidula przevalskii


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