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Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801)
1002794 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1002794)
accepted
Species
Delomphalus rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Helix (Hygromane) rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Helix (Hygromane) rupestris var. saxatilis Hartmann, 1821 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix (Hygromane) rupestris var. trochoides Moquin-Tandon, 1856 · unaccepted (invalid; not Poiret, 1789)
Helix (Patula) hierosolimitana Bourguignat, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix (Patula) rupestris Draparnaud, 1801 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Helix (Patula) rupestris f. rupicola Stabile, 1859 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix (Patula) rupestris var. dalmatina (Clessin, 1887) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix (Patula) rupestris var. meridionalis Issel, 1870 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix (Patula) rupestris var. saxatilis Hartmann, 1821 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix (Patula) rupestris var. subglobosa Bourguignat, 1889 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix aliena L. Pfeiffer, 1841 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix hierosolymitana Bourguignat, 1852 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Helix rupestris Draparnaud, 1801 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Helix rupestris var. conoidea Bourguignat, 1863 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix rupestris var. meridionalis Issel, 1870 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix rupestris var. rupicola Stabile, 1859 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix rupestris var. saxatilis Hartmann, 1821 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix saxatilis Hartmann, 1821 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Helix umbilicata Montagu, 1803 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Patula (Pyramidula) rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Patula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Patula rupestris var. dalmatina (Clessin, 1887) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pyramidula (Pyramidula) rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) · alternative representation
Pyramidula rupestris var. dalmatina (Clessin, 1887) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pyramidula rupestris var. meridionalis (Issel, 1870) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Turbo myrmecidis Scacchi, 1833 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Subspecies Pyramidula rupestris salimalii I. Rensch, 1955 accepted as Pyramidula salimalii I. Rensch, 1955 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Variety Pyramidula rupestris var. dalmatina (Clessin, 1887) accepted as Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Pyramidula rupestris var. jaenensis (Clessin, 1882) accepted as Pyramidula jaenensis (Clessin, 1882) (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Variety Pyramidula rupestris var. meridionalis (Issel, 1870) accepted as Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Pyramidula rupestris var. nylanderi E. S. Morse, 1920 accepted as Planogyra asteriscus (E. S. Morse, 1857) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
(of Helix rupestris Draparnaud, 1801) Draparnaud, J. P. R. (1801). <i>Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France</i>. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28587765
page(s): 71 [details]
page(s): 71 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1002794 on 2026-10-04
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original description
(of Helix hierosolymitana Bourguignat, 1852) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1852). Testacea novissima quæ Cl. de Saulcy in itinere per Orientem annis 1850 et 1851, collegit. pp. [1], 5-31; Lutetiæ: Baillière [≥ August]., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k99037b/f1.image
page(s): 13-14 [details]
original description (of Helix rupestris var. conoidea Bourguignat, 1863) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1863-1865). Malacologie de l'Algérie ou histoire naturelle des animaux mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles recueillis jusqu'à ce jour dans nos possessions du nord de l'Afrique. Tome 1, fascicule 1: 1-80, pls 1-8 [wrapper dated May 1863]; fasc. 2: 81-192, pls 9-10, 13-18 [wrapper dated June 1863]; fasc. 3: 193-294, pls 11-12, 19-32 [wrapper dated November 1863]. Tome 2, fasc. 4: 1-144, pl. 1-5, 7 [wrapper dated January 1864]; fasc. 5: 145-232, pls 6, 8-11, 15-16, 18-26 [wrapper dated April 1864]; fasc. 6: I-XII [to be bound prior to fasc. 1], 9-32 [replacement pages for fasc. 1], 233-380, pls 12-14, 17, map 1-5 [page XI dated December 1864, but published late in 1865]. Paris (Challamel ainé)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34072940
page(s): pl. XVI, fig. 31 [details]
original description (of Patula rupestris var. dalmatina (Clessin, 1887)) Clessin, S. (1887). Beitrag zur Fauna der Binnen-Mollusken Dalmatiens. <em>Malakozoologische Blätter, Neue Folge.</em> 9: 43-65., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35483089
page(s): 51 [details]
original description (of Helix rupestris Draparnaud, 1801) Draparnaud, J. P. R. (1801). <i>Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France</i>. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28587765
page(s): 71 [details]
original description (of Helix rupestris var. saxatilis Hartmann, 1821) Hartmann, J. D. W. (1821). System der Erd- und Süßwasser Gasteropoden Europa's. In besonderer Hinsicht auf diejenigen Gattungen, welche in Deutschland und der Schweiz angetroffen werden. In: J. Sturm (ed.) Deutschlands Fauna in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. VI. Abtheilung. Die Würmer. 5. Heft. 60 pp., pl. 1-3. [appeared after the 1821 work published in Neue Alpina]. Nürnberg (J. Sturm).
page(s): 52 [details]
original description (of Helix rupestris var. meridionalis Issel, 1870) Issel A. (1870). Elenco di Conchiglie terrestri e d' acqua dolce dell' Umbria, raccolte dal prof. G. BELLUCCI e determinate da A. IssE1. <em>Bulletino malacologico Italiano.</em> 3: 113-118., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39463073
page(s): 115 [details]
original description (of Helix umbilicata Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 434, pl. 13 fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Helix (Hygromane) rupestris var. trochoides Moquin-Tandon, 1856) Moquin-Tandon, A. (1855-1856). Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France, Tome premier (1): i-viii, 1-14 + Atlas: 1-16, pl. 1-9 (12 April 1855); (2): 145-256 + Atlas: 17-32, pl. 10-18 (4 May 1855); (3): 257-416 + Atlas: 33-48, pl. 19-27 (1 August 1855). Tome second (4): i-iii, 1-176 + Atlas: 49-64, pl. 28-36 (10 September 1855); (5): 177-368 + Atlas: 65-80, pl. 37-45 (2 January 1856); (6): 369-646 + Atlas: i-iii, 81-92, pl. 46-54 (9 April 1856). Paris (J.-B. Baillière)., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32068638
page(s): 2: 192 [details]
original description (of Helix aliena L. Pfeiffer, 1841) Pfeiffer, L. (1841). <i>Symbolae ad historiam Heliceorum</i>. Sectio prima [vol. 1]. Kassel: Th. Fischer. 88 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12254132
page(s): 39 [details]
original description (of Turbo myrmecidis Scacchi, 1833) Scacchi, A. (1833). <i>Osservazioni Zoologiche</i>. Napoli, Tipi della Società Tipografica. 1: 1-12 [February]; 2: 13-27 [May]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35752103
page(s): 11 [details]
original description (of Helix rupestris var. rupicola Stabile, 1859) Stabile, G. (1859). Prospetto sistematico-statistico dei molluschi terrestri e fluviali viventi nel territorio di Lugano. Atti della Società Geologica, 1 (3): 127-189. Milano.
page(s): 145 [details]
original description (of Helix (Patula) rupestris var. subglobosa Bourguignat, 1889) Westerlund, C. A. (1889). <i>Fauna der in der paläarctischen Region (Europa, Kaukasien, Sibirien, Turan, Persien, Kurdistan, Armenien, Mesopotamien, Kleinasien, Syrien, Arabien, Egypten, Tripolis, Tunesien, Algerien und Marocco) lebenden Binnenconchylien. II. Gen. Helix</i>. Berlin: R. Friedländer. pp. 473 + 31 (Register)., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10893365
page(s): 14 [details]
basis of record Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. <em>Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft).</em> 312 pp., 142 plates. [June] [= Pensoft Series Faunistica No 87].
page(s): 56, Fig. 22H, I [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Biggs, H. E. J. (1971). Mollusca of the Iranian Plateau–III. <em>Journal of Conchology.</em> 27 (4): 211-220. London [29 April].
page(s): 214 [details]
additional source Gittenberger, E. & Bank, R.A. (1996). A new start in <i>Pyramidula</i> (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidellidae). <em>Basteria.</em> 60 (1/3): 71-78. Leiden [23 August].
page(s): 76 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Horsáková, V., Líznarová, E., Razkin, O., Nekola, J. C. & Horsák, M. (2022). Deciphering “cryptic” nature of European rock-dwelling Pyramidula snails (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). <em>Contributions to Zoology.</em> 91: 233–260., available online at https://brill.com/view/journals/ctoz/91/4-5/article-p233_001.xml [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kerney, M. P., Cameron, R. A. D. & Jungbluth, J.-H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Biologen und Naturfreunde. <em>Verlag Paul Parey.</em> 384 pp., 24 plates. [Summer or later]. Hamburg / Berlin (Paul Parey).
page(s): 85 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Klemm, W. (1974). Die Verbreitung der rezenten Land-Gehäuse-Schnecken in Österreich. Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 117: 503 pp., III + 153 maps. Wien.
page(s): 95 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pilsbry, H. A. (1927-1935). <i>Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species</i>. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 28: Geographic distribution of Pupillidae; Strobilopsidae, Valloniidae and Pleurodiscidae. pp 1-226, pls 1-31. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences. [pp. 1-48, figs. 1, 2, pls. 1-8, Nov. 11, 1927; pp. 49-96, pls. 9-12, Apr. 2, 1931; pp. 97-160, figs. 3-8, pls. 13-23, Jun. 14, 1934; pp. 161-226, i-xii, figs. 9-12, pls. 24-31, Nov. 7, 1935]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5935964
page(s): 184-186, pl. 25, figs. 9, 9a, 9b [details]
page(s): 13-14 [details]
original description (of Helix rupestris var. conoidea Bourguignat, 1863) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1863-1865). Malacologie de l'Algérie ou histoire naturelle des animaux mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles recueillis jusqu'à ce jour dans nos possessions du nord de l'Afrique. Tome 1, fascicule 1: 1-80, pls 1-8 [wrapper dated May 1863]; fasc. 2: 81-192, pls 9-10, 13-18 [wrapper dated June 1863]; fasc. 3: 193-294, pls 11-12, 19-32 [wrapper dated November 1863]. Tome 2, fasc. 4: 1-144, pl. 1-5, 7 [wrapper dated January 1864]; fasc. 5: 145-232, pls 6, 8-11, 15-16, 18-26 [wrapper dated April 1864]; fasc. 6: I-XII [to be bound prior to fasc. 1], 9-32 [replacement pages for fasc. 1], 233-380, pls 12-14, 17, map 1-5 [page XI dated December 1864, but published late in 1865]. Paris (Challamel ainé)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34072940
page(s): pl. XVI, fig. 31 [details]
original description (of Patula rupestris var. dalmatina (Clessin, 1887)) Clessin, S. (1887). Beitrag zur Fauna der Binnen-Mollusken Dalmatiens. <em>Malakozoologische Blätter, Neue Folge.</em> 9: 43-65., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35483089
page(s): 51 [details]
original description (of Helix rupestris Draparnaud, 1801) Draparnaud, J. P. R. (1801). <i>Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France</i>. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28587765
page(s): 71 [details]
original description (of Helix rupestris var. saxatilis Hartmann, 1821) Hartmann, J. D. W. (1821). System der Erd- und Süßwasser Gasteropoden Europa's. In besonderer Hinsicht auf diejenigen Gattungen, welche in Deutschland und der Schweiz angetroffen werden. In: J. Sturm (ed.) Deutschlands Fauna in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. VI. Abtheilung. Die Würmer. 5. Heft. 60 pp., pl. 1-3. [appeared after the 1821 work published in Neue Alpina]. Nürnberg (J. Sturm).
page(s): 52 [details]
original description (of Helix rupestris var. meridionalis Issel, 1870) Issel A. (1870). Elenco di Conchiglie terrestri e d' acqua dolce dell' Umbria, raccolte dal prof. G. BELLUCCI e determinate da A. IssE1. <em>Bulletino malacologico Italiano.</em> 3: 113-118., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39463073
page(s): 115 [details]
original description (of Helix umbilicata Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 434, pl. 13 fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Helix (Hygromane) rupestris var. trochoides Moquin-Tandon, 1856) Moquin-Tandon, A. (1855-1856). Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France, Tome premier (1): i-viii, 1-14 + Atlas: 1-16, pl. 1-9 (12 April 1855); (2): 145-256 + Atlas: 17-32, pl. 10-18 (4 May 1855); (3): 257-416 + Atlas: 33-48, pl. 19-27 (1 August 1855). Tome second (4): i-iii, 1-176 + Atlas: 49-64, pl. 28-36 (10 September 1855); (5): 177-368 + Atlas: 65-80, pl. 37-45 (2 January 1856); (6): 369-646 + Atlas: i-iii, 81-92, pl. 46-54 (9 April 1856). Paris (J.-B. Baillière)., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32068638
page(s): 2: 192 [details]
original description (of Helix aliena L. Pfeiffer, 1841) Pfeiffer, L. (1841). <i>Symbolae ad historiam Heliceorum</i>. Sectio prima [vol. 1]. Kassel: Th. Fischer. 88 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12254132
page(s): 39 [details]
original description (of Turbo myrmecidis Scacchi, 1833) Scacchi, A. (1833). <i>Osservazioni Zoologiche</i>. Napoli, Tipi della Società Tipografica. 1: 1-12 [February]; 2: 13-27 [May]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35752103
page(s): 11 [details]
original description (of Helix rupestris var. rupicola Stabile, 1859) Stabile, G. (1859). Prospetto sistematico-statistico dei molluschi terrestri e fluviali viventi nel territorio di Lugano. Atti della Società Geologica, 1 (3): 127-189. Milano.
page(s): 145 [details]
original description (of Helix (Patula) rupestris var. subglobosa Bourguignat, 1889) Westerlund, C. A. (1889). <i>Fauna der in der paläarctischen Region (Europa, Kaukasien, Sibirien, Turan, Persien, Kurdistan, Armenien, Mesopotamien, Kleinasien, Syrien, Arabien, Egypten, Tripolis, Tunesien, Algerien und Marocco) lebenden Binnenconchylien. II. Gen. Helix</i>. Berlin: R. Friedländer. pp. 473 + 31 (Register)., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10893365
page(s): 14 [details]
basis of record Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. <em>Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft).</em> 312 pp., 142 plates. [June] [= Pensoft Series Faunistica No 87].
page(s): 56, Fig. 22H, I [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Biggs, H. E. J. (1971). Mollusca of the Iranian Plateau–III. <em>Journal of Conchology.</em> 27 (4): 211-220. London [29 April].
page(s): 214 [details]
additional source Gittenberger, E. & Bank, R.A. (1996). A new start in <i>Pyramidula</i> (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pyramidellidae). <em>Basteria.</em> 60 (1/3): 71-78. Leiden [23 August].
page(s): 76 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Horsáková, V., Líznarová, E., Razkin, O., Nekola, J. C. & Horsák, M. (2022). Deciphering “cryptic” nature of European rock-dwelling Pyramidula snails (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). <em>Contributions to Zoology.</em> 91: 233–260., available online at https://brill.com/view/journals/ctoz/91/4-5/article-p233_001.xml [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kerney, M. P., Cameron, R. A. D. & Jungbluth, J.-H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Biologen und Naturfreunde. <em>Verlag Paul Parey.</em> 384 pp., 24 plates. [Summer or later]. Hamburg / Berlin (Paul Parey).
page(s): 85 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Klemm, W. (1974). Die Verbreitung der rezenten Land-Gehäuse-Schnecken in Österreich. Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 117: 503 pp., III + 153 maps. Wien.
page(s): 95 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pilsbry, H. A. (1927-1935). <i>Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species</i>. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 28: Geographic distribution of Pupillidae; Strobilopsidae, Valloniidae and Pleurodiscidae. pp 1-226, pls 1-31. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences. [pp. 1-48, figs. 1, 2, pls. 1-8, Nov. 11, 1927; pp. 49-96, pls. 9-12, Apr. 2, 1931; pp. 97-160, figs. 3-8, pls. 13-23, Jun. 14, 1934; pp. 161-226, i-xii, figs. 9-12, pls. 24-31, Nov. 7, 1935]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5935964
page(s): 184-186, pl. 25, figs. 9, 9a, 9b [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype (of Helix hierosolymitana Bourguignat, 1852) MHNG-MOLL 16903 [details]
To Barcode of Life (57 barcodes)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pyramidula rupestris)
To GB Mollusca Types (Helix umbilicata Montagu, 1803; Syntype(s); EXEMS Moll4147) (from synonym Helix umbilicata Montagu, 1803)
To GenBank (142 nucleotides; 53 proteins)
To Malacopics (Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) Germany, Bayern, Reichenhall)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pyramidula rupestris)
To GB Mollusca Types (Helix umbilicata Montagu, 1803; Syntype(s); EXEMS Moll4147) (from synonym Helix umbilicata Montagu, 1803)
To GenBank (142 nucleotides; 53 proteins)
To Malacopics (Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) Germany, Bayern, Reichenhall)
.jpg "To Malacopics (Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801) Germany, Bayern, Reichenhall)")
