Pyramidula rupestris

Pyramidula rupestris
	Five views of a shell of Pyramidula rupestris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Pyramidulidae
Genus:	Pyramidula
Species:	P. rupestris
Binomial name
	Pyramidula rupestris; (Draparnaud, 1801)
Synonyms
	Delomphalus rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination); Helix (Patula) rupestris Draparnaud, 1801 · unaccepted (unaccepted combination); Helix hierosolymitana Bourguignat, 1852 · unaccepted (junior synonym); Helix rupestris Draparnaud, 1801 · unaccepted (original combination); Helix rupestris var. trochoides Moquin-Tandon, 1855 · unaccepted (junior synonym); Helix saxatilis Hartmann, 1821 · unaccepted (junior synonym); Patula (Pyramidula) rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination); Pyramidula (Pyramidula) rupestris Draparnaud, 1801;

Pyramidula rupestris is a species of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidulidae.^[2]

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.^[3]

This species occurs in:

^ Draparnaud J. P. R. 1801. Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. pp. [1-2], 1-116. Montpellier, Paris. (Renaud; Bossange, Masson & Besson).
^ 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
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Pyramidula rupestris. AnimalBase, accessed 13 December 2008.

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

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