Pyramidula rupestris

Pyramidula rupestris is a species of very small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pyramidulidae.^[2]

Pyramidula rupestris
Five views of a shell of Pyramidula rupestris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Pyramidulidae
Genus:	Pyramidula
Species:	P. rupestris
Binomial name
Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801)[1]
Synonyms
Delomphalus rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination) Helix (Patula) rupestris Draparnaud, 1801 · unaccepted (unaccepted combination) Helix hierosolymitana Bourguignat, 1852 · unaccepted (junior synonym) Helix rupestris Draparnaud, 1801 · unaccepted (original combination) Helix rupestris var. trochoides Moquin-Tandon, 1855 · unaccepted (junior synonym) Helix saxatilis Hartmann, 1821 · unaccepted (junior synonym) Patula (Pyramidula) rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination) Pyramidula (Pyramidula) rupestris Draparnaud, 1801

The variety Pyramidula rupestris var. nylanderi Morse, 1920is a synonym of Planogyra asteriscus (Morse, 1857)

Shell description

The width of the shell is up to 2.7 mm, the height is up to 2.5 mm.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in:

• The entire Mediterranean region^[3]
• Dalmatia^[3]
• Spain^[4]
• The Alps^[5]
• Northern Italy^[3]
• Greece^[3]
• Israel^[3]
• Asia^[5]
• Morocco^[3]