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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
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Pyramidulidae
Genus: Pyramidula
Species:
P. przevalskii
Binomial name
Pyramidula przevalskii
Lindholm, 1922 [1]

Pyramidula przevalskii is a species [2] 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. [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. ^ a b c d Lindholm W. 1922. On a new form of Pyramidula rupestris Drap. (Gastropoda Pulmonata) from Western China. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo muzeja RAN. 23: 255–256.
  2. ^ a b c d e (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)