Pyramidula przevalskii

Pyramidula przevalskii is a species[2] of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidulidae.

Pyramidula przevalskii
Paralectotype of P. przevalskii in collection of Zoological Museum of Moscow University
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
Family:
Pyramidulidae
Genus:
Pyramidula
Species:
P. przevalskii
Binomial name
Pyramidula przevalskii

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.[1][2]

Distribution

This species is known only from one location in Keriya (Hotan, China).[1][2] The type series was collected by Nikolay Przhevalsky in 1885.[1][2] There are currently (2012) no other findings.[2]

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)


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