Pupillidae
| Pupillidae Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent[1] | |
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| A right side view of a live Pupilla muscorum | |
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| Six shells of Pupilla muscorum. The scale bar is in mm. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Pupillidae Turton, 1831[2] |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[3]
Distribution
In Cuba, there is one species from the family Pupillidae: Pupoides marginatus.[4]
Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[5]
Genera
Genera within the family Pupillidae include:
- Gyliotrachela Tomlin, 1930
- Lyropupa Pilsbry, 1900
- Pronesopupa Iredale, 1913
- Ptychalaea Boettger, 1889
- Pupilla Fleming, 1828 - type genus of the family Pupillidae[3]
- Pupoides Pfeiffer, 1854[4][3]
- Pupoidopsis Pilsbry & Cooke, 1920
- Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898[6] / or in Vertiginidae[4]
References
- ↑ "Family summary for Pupillidae". AnimalBase, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ 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.)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.
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