Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. [4]
This family has two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[3]: Pupillinae W. Turton, 1831 and Pupoidinae Iredale, 1940.
Distribution
Pupoides marginatus is endemic to Cuba.[5] The type genus, Pupilla, in direct contrast, has numerous living and extinct species found in Europe, Northern Africa, North America and South-East Asia.
Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[6]
Genera
Genera within the family Pupillidae include:
- Subfamily Pupillinae W. Turton, 1831
- Subfamily Pupoidinae Iredale, 1940
- Genera brought into synonymy
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Australbinula Pilsbry, 1916: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 (junior synonym)
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Famarinia Iredale, 1933: synonym of Glyptopupoides Pilsbry, 1926 (invalid: nomen nudum)
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Gyrodaria Iredale, 1940: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878
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Leucochila E. von Martens, 1860: synonym of Pupoides L. Pfeiffer, 1854
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Leucochiloides L. Pfeiffer, 1879: synonym of Pupoides L. Pfeiffer, 1854
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Papualbinula Iredale, 1941: synonym of Australbinula Pilsbry, 1916: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878
- † Paracoryna Flach, 1890: synonym of Pupilla J. Fleming, 1828 (junior synonym)
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Pupa Draparnaud, 1801: synonym of Pupilla J. Fleming, 1828 (invalid: junior homonym of Pupa Röding, 1798)
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Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898[7] / or in Vertiginidae:[5] synonym of Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773
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Themapupa Iredale, 1930: synonym of Pupoides L. Pfeiffer, 1854
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Torquatella Held, 1838: synonym of Pupilla J. Fleming, 1828
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Wallivertilla Iredale, 1937: synonym of Cylindrovertilla O. Boettger, 1881 (junior synonym)
References
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^ "Family summary for Pupillidae". AnimalBase, accessed 5 April 2011.
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^ Turton W. (1831). A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands. 152 pp., 9, plates. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Greene, London.8: 97. (original spelling: Pupilladae.)
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^ a b c d Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
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^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pupillidae W. Turton, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=426389 on 2021-07-25
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^ a b c "Mollusca" Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
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^ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1–146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
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^ Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.
