Pyramidula jaenensis

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

Pyramidula jaenensis
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. jaenensis
Binomial name
Pyramidula jaenensis
(Clessin, 1882)[1]
Synonyms

Helix (Patula) jaenensis Clessin, 1882

Shell description

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

Distribution

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


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