Sphyradium

Sphyradium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Pupilloidei
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Orculidae
Genus:	Sphyradium Charpentier, 1837
Type species
Bulimus doliolum Bruguière, 1792
Synonyms
Orcula (Sphyradium) Charpentier, 1837 (superseded combination) Pupa (Sphyradium) Charpentier, 1837 (original rank) Scyphus Cecconi, 1908 junior objective synonym

Sphyradium is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orculidae within the superfamily Pupilloidea.

Species

Species within the genus Sphyradium include:

• Sphyradium doliolum (Bruguière, 1792)

Synonyms

• Sphyradium alexanderi Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1906: synonym of Columella alexanderi (Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1906) (original combination)
• Sphyradium dobrogicum Grossu, 1986: synonym of Sphyradium doliolum (Bruguière, 1792) (junior synonym)
• Sphyradium hasta Hanna, 1911: synonym of Columella hasta (Hanna, 1911)
• Sphyradium himalayanum (Benson, 1863): synonym of Truncatellina himalayana (Benson, 1863) (unaccepted combination)
• Sphyradium parreyssii (L. Pfeiffer, 1848): synonym of Agardhiella parreyssii (L. Pfeiffer, 1848) (superseded combination)
• Sphyradium sharpi Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1906: synonym of Columella sharpi (Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1906) (original combination)

References

• Schileyko, A. A. (1998). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 1. Achatinellidae, Amastridae, Orculidae, Strobilopsidae, Spelaeodiscidae, Valloniidae, Cochlicopidae, Pupillidae, Chondrinidae, Pyramidellidae. Ruthenica. Supplement 2: 1–127. Moskva
• Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates.
• Gittenberger, E. (1978). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pupillacea VIII. Einiges über Orculidae. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 163: 1–44, pl. 1–4. Leiden

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