Pyramidulidae
| Pyramidulidae | |
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| Five shells of Pyramidula rupestris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidulidae Kennard & B. B. Woodward, 1914 |
| Genera | |
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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.
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