Pyramidella
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Pyramidella is a genus
of minute to medium-sized sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae
, the pyrams and their allies.
Pyramidella is the type genus
of the family Pyramidellidae.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of minute to medium-sized sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae
Pyramidellidae
Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs....
, the pyrams and their allies.
Pyramidella is the type genus
Type genus
In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...
of the family Pyramidellidae.
Species
Species within the genus Pyramidella include:- Pyramidella acus (Gmelin, 1791) - needle pyram
- Pyramidella auriscati (Chemnitz, 1795)
- Pyramidella camara Bartsch, 1927
- Pyramidella corrugata
- Pyramidella dolabrataPyramidella dolabrataPyramidella dolabrata, common name the "giant Atlantic pyram", is a species of small to medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyram snails.- Distribution :...
(Linnaeus, 1758) - Pyramidella folinii Dall, 1889
- Pyramidella gracilis A. Adams
- Pyramidella inopinata (Schander, 1994)
- Pyramidella maculosaPyramidella maculosaPyramidella maculosa is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams. It is a large species for this family, which mostly consists of micromollusks....
J. B. Lamarck, 1822 - Pyramidella mitralis A. Adams, 1853
- Pyramidella prati Bernardi, 1858
- Pyramidella sanctaehelenae (E. A. Smith, 1890)
- Pyramidella schanderi van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998
- Pyramidella scitula Adams
- Pyramidella subdolabrata (Mörch, 1854)
- Pyramidella subglabra Odhner, 1919
- Pyramidella sulcata (A. Adams, 1854)
- Pyramidella terebelloides Adams
- Pyramidella terebellum Muller
- Pyramidella teres Adams
- Pyramidella variegata A. Adams