Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Vanikoroidea > Family Eulimidae > Genus Eulima

Leiostraca pyramidalis G. B. Sowerby II, 1866

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: unresolved
Name Status: species inquirenda

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Eulima*	Risso, 1826	accepted genus name
*Leiostraca*	H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853	synonym
*Strombiformis*	da Costa, 1778	synonym
*Subularia*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym

Species group names

*Melanella pyramidalis*	(G. B. Sowerby II, 1866)	synonym

Literature

original description	Sowerby, G. B. II. (1866). Monograph of the Genus Leiostraca. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 15, pls 1-3 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London [stated date: May 1866].
basis of record	Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Leiostraca pyramidalis G. B. Sowerby II, 1866. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:566736

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