Lithoglyphus pyramidatus

Lithoglyphus pyramidatus
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene–Recent[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Subfamily: Lithoglyphinae
Genus: Lithoglyphus
Species: L. pyramidatus
Binomial name
Lithoglyphus pyramidatus
Möllendorff, 1873[2]
Synonyms[1]

Paludina fusca C. Pfeiffer, 1828

Lithoglyphus pyramidatus is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Lithoglyphidae.

Distribution

The distribution of Lithoglyphus pyramidatus includes:

The type locality for this species is Vrbas River near Banja Luka, Bosnia.[2][1]

Description

The shell has 4 whorls.[1] The width of the shell is 7 mm.[1] The height of the shell is 8.5 mm.[1]

Ecology

Lithoglyphus pyramidatus lives in rivers and in brooks.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 (German) Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0.
  2. 2.0 2.1 (German) Möllendorff O. F. von (1873). Beiträge zur Fauna Bosniens. Inauguraldissertation, Görlitz, 73 pp., page 59, table 1, fig. 20.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1