Pyramidula cephalonica

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

Pyramidula cephalonica
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. cephalonica
Binomial name
Pyramidula cephalonica

Shell description

The width of the shell is up to 2.6 mm, the height is up to 1.8 mm.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including:

References
  1. Westerlund C. A. 1898. Novum specilegium malacologicum. Neue Binnenconchylien aus der paläarktischen Region. Ezhegodnik. Zoologicheskago Muzeja Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk [Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg] 3 (2): 155-183. S.-Peterburg.
  2. Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.


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