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 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (German) Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0.
  2. 1 2 (German) Möllendorff O. F. von (1873). Beiträge zur Fauna Bosniens. Inauguraldissertation, Görlitz, 73 pp., page 59, table 1, fig. 20.
  3. 1 2 3 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
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