Pyramidella
Pyramidella is a genus of minute to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Pyramidella is the type genus of the family Pyramidellidae.
Nomenclature
The generic name Pyramidella Lamarck, 1799, has been validated under the Plenary Powers of the ICZN, Opinion 386. The name Obeliscus Anonymus, 1797 has also been used for this genus, whereas the name Pyramidella was used for the genus now known as Otopleura Fischer, 1885.General description
The shell has an elongate-conic shape, slightly striated. The many whorls of the teleoconch are usually inflated and regularly increasing. They are longitudinally ribbed or smooth. The semioval aperture is entire, widened at its base and rounded in front..The columella has one to three folds. The sharp outer lip is entire, inferiorly sub-perforated and often plicate within with three transverse folds. The shell is usually larger than in Turbonilla. The thin operculum is horny, ovate, elongated,with very fine elements and oblique foldsand folds oblique. The shell lacks an epidermis.
The shells are generally quite small, of an elegant form, elongated, marked with more or less deep spots. The general color of the body of these mollusca, is of a dull white. The operculum only, and the edge of the mantle are yellowish.
The animal has a head surmounted by broad, rather long tentacles, formed like a pointed horn, and open on the side. The mouth is situated in a flattened, wide, dilated, and quite deeply two-lobed muzzle, separated from the foot by a groove. The respiratory cavity open throughout the whole length of the mantle, bearing on its right margin a long and narrow branchia. The heart has a direction from right to left. The rectum and uterus are attached to each other along the branchiae, and terminate in an ear-shaped gutter, produced by the margin of the mantle. The mucous follicles line the upper wall of the cavity. The foot is round, without a marginal furrow, passing down before in form of an ear-shaped shield, and bearing posteriorly a membranous operculum, with laminas destitute of a spire, which possesses one or two notches to slip upon the folds of the columella.
Species
Species within the genus Pyramidella include:- Pyramidella achates
- Pyramidella adamsi Carpenter, 1864
- Pyramidella ava Bartsch, 1926
- Pyramidella bairdi Dall & Bartsch, 1909
- Pyramidella bicolor Menke, 1854
- Pyramidella camara Bartsch, 1927
- Pyramidella conica C.B. Adams, 1852
- Pyramidella corrugata Lamarck, 1822
- Pyramidella dolabrata
- Pyramidella elenensis Bartsch, 1924
- Pyramidella fastigium
- Pyramidella gracilis A. Adams
- Pyramidella guardarioorum Poppe, Tagaro & Stahlschmidt, 2015
- Pyramidella hancocki Strong & Hertlein, 1939
- Pyramidella hastata
- Pyramidella inopinata
- Pyramidella linearum Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932
- Pyramidella maculosa Lamarck, 1822
- Pyramidella magdalenensis Bartsch, 1917
- Pyramidella mazatlanica Dall & Bartsch, 1909
- Pyramidella mexicana Dall & Bartsch, 1909
- Pyramidella minor
- Pyramidella moffati Dall & Bartsch, 1906
- Pyramidella panamensis Dall &Bartsch, 1909
- Pyramidella sanctaehelenae
- Pyramidella scitula Adams
- Pyramidella subdolabrata
- Pyramidella subglabra Odhner, 1919
- Pyramidella terebelloides Adams
- Pyramidella turrita A. Adams, 1855
- Pyramidella curtissima Locard, 1897
- Pyramidella obeliscus W. H. Turton, 1932
- Pyramidella suavissima Preston, 1905
- Pyramidella sykesi Preston, 1905
- Pyramidella tarpeia Bartsch, 1915
- Pyramidella A. Adams, 1860: synonym of Agatha A. Adams, 1860
- Pyramidella Mörch, 1875: synonym of Longchaeus Mörch, 1875
- Pyramidella A. Adams, 1860: synonym of Syrnola A. Adams, 1860
- Pyramidella Dall & Bartsch, 1906: synonym of Tiberia Jeffreys, 1884
- Pyramidella Dall & Bartsch, 1904: synonym of Longchaeus Mörch, 1875
- Pyramidella acus - needle pyram: synonym of Longchaeus acus
- Pyramidella aganea Bartsch, 1915: synonym of Syrnola aganea
- Pyramidella alfredensis Bartsch, 1915: synonym of Orinella alfredensis
- Pyramidella aprustica Crema, 1903: synonym of Euparthenia bulinea
- Pyramidella arenosa Conrad, 1843: synonym of Longchaeus suturalis
- Pyramidella auricoma Dall, 1889: synonym of Longchaeus auricoma
- Pyramidella auriscati : synonym of Otopleura auriscati
- Pyramidella balteata : synonym of Tiberia balteata
- Pyramidella canaliculata Sowerby, 1874: synonym of Pyramidella insularum Pilsbry, 1922
- † Pyramidella cancellata Nyst, 1836: synonym of † Sandbergeria cancellata †
- Pyramidella candida Mørch, 1875: synonym of Longchaeus candidus
- Pyramidella capensis : synonym of Odostomia capensis Thiele, 1925
- Pyramidella ceylanica Preston, 1905: synonym of Kleinella ceylanica
- Pyramidella cincta Reeve, 1842: synonym of Milda cincta
- Pyramidella crenulata : synonym of Longchaeus suturalis
- Pyramidella denticulata Sowerby II, 1865: synonym of Colsyrnola ornata
- † Pyramidella diademata Maury, 1917 : synonym of Longchaeus suturalis
- Pyramidella folinii Dall, 1889: synonym of Longchaeus folinii
- Pyramidella fulva Sowerby II, 1865: synonym of Colsyrnola brunnea
- Pyramidella fusca : synonym of Sayella fusca
- Pyramidella garrettii Tryon, 1886: synonym of Milda garretti
- Pyramidella hera Bartsch, 1915: synonym of Syrnola hera
- Pyramidella humilis Preston, 1905: synonym of Quirella humilis
- Pyramidella insularum Pilsbry, 1922: synonym of Longchaeus insularum
- † Pyramidella jamaicensis Dall, 1896: synonym of † Longchaeus jamaicensis
- † Pyramidella kelirensis : synonym of † Longchaeus menadensis
- Pyramidella lischkei Dall & Bartsch, 1906: synonym of Styloptygma taeniatum
- Pyramidella lissa : synonym of Eulimella lissa A. E. Verrill, 1884
- Pyramidella magnifica Adams & Reeve, 1850: synonym of Otopleura auriscati
- Pyramidella mazatlantica Dall & Bartsch, 1909: synonym of Pyramidella mazatlanica Dall & Bartsch, 1909
- Pyramidella mediterranea Monterosato, 1880: synonym of Tiberia minuscula
- Pyramidella minuscula Monterosato, 1880: synonym of Tiberia minuscula
- Pyramidella mitralis A. Adams, 1853: synonym of Otopleura mitralis
- Pyramidella modica Sowerby II, 1865: synonym of Syrnola modica
- Pyramidella nitida : synonym of Otopleura nitida
- Pyramidella nitidula : synonym of Tiberia nitidula
- Pyramidella nivea : synonym of Triptychus niveus
- Pyramidella octaviana Di Geronimo, 1973: synonym of Tiberia minuscula
- † Pyramidella olssoni Maury, 1917: synonym of † Longchaeus olssoni
- Pyramidella ornata : synonym of Colsyrnola ornata
- Pyramidella plicata Lamarck, 1816: synonym of Otopleura auriscati
- Pyramidella pratii Bernardi, 1858: synonym of Longchaeus turritus
- Pyramidella producta : synonym of Syrnola producta
- Pyramidella propinqua A. Adams, 1854: synonym of Otopleura mitralis
- Pyramidella pulchella : synonym of Orinella pulchella
- Pyramidella punctata Schubert & Wagner, 1829: synonym of Longchaeus acus
- Pyramidella punctata Férussac, 1821: synonym of Longchaeus acus
- Pyramidella pupaeformis Souverbie, 1865: synonym of Pyrgulina pupaeformis
- Pyramidella resticula : synonym of Bacteridium resticulum
- Pyramidella schanderi van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998: synonym of Pyramidella inopinata
- Pyramidella semicanaliculata Maury, 1917 †: synonym of Longchaeus suturalis
- Pyramidella similis Thiele, 1925: synonym of Tiberia analoga van Aartsen & Corgan, 1996
- Pyramidella smithi Verrill, 1881: synonym of Eulimella unifasciata
- Pyramidella sulcata : synonym of Pyramidella maculosa Lamarck, 1822
- Pyramidella suturalis H. C. Lea, 1843: synonym of Longchaeus suturalis
- Pyramidella terebellum Muller: synonym of Pyramidella dolabrata terebellum
- Pyramidella teres Adams: synonym of Tropaeas teres
- Pyramidella tessellata : synonym of Pyramidella sulcata : synonym of Pyramidella maculosa Lamarck, 1822
- Pyramidella umbilicata Thiele, 1925: synonym of Tiberia navella van Aartsen & Corgan, 1996
- Pyramidella unifasciata : synonym of Tibersyrnola unifasciata
- Pyramidella variegata A. Adams: synonym of Otopleura mitralis
- Pyramidella ventricosa : synonym of Eulimella ventricosa
- Pyramidella ventricosa Guérin, 1831: synonym of Milda ventricosa''