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Pyramidula jaenensis

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Pyramidula jaenensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Pyramidulidae
Genus: Pyramidula
Species:
P. jaenensis
Binomial name
Pyramidula jaenensis
(Clessin, 1882)[1]
Synonyms

Helix (Patula) jaenensis Clessin, 1882

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

Shell description

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The width of the shell is up to 2.2 mm, the height is up to 2.7 mm.[2]

Distribution

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This species occurs in:

  • Spain - in the south of the Iberian Peninsula[3]
  • southern Portugal (according to Gittenberger 1996,[2] but not mentioned in later article by Martínez-Ortí 2007[3])

References

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  1. ^ Clessin S. 1882. Neue Arten. Malakozoologische Blätter (Neue Folge) 5: 187-193, Taf. IV [= 4].
  2. ^ a b Gittenberger E. & Bank R. A. 1996. A new start in Pyramidula (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidulidae). Basteria 60: 71-78.
  3. ^ a b 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.