Pyramidulidae
| Pyramidulidae | |
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| Five shells of Pyramidula rupestris | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Family: | Pyramidulidae & B. B. Woodward, 1914
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Pyramidulidae is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Anatomy[]
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[1]
Genera[]
Genera within the family Pyramidulidae include:
- Pyramidula Fitzinger, 1833 - the type genus
References[]
- ^ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
External links[]
Media related to Pyramidulidae at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Pyramidulidae
- Orthurethra stubs