Pupinidae

Pupinidae
Pupinella rufa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

Informal group Architaenioglossa

Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Pupinidae
L. Pfeiffer, 1853
Diversity[1]
at least 121 extant species

Pupinidae is a taxonomic family of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Distribution

The distribution of the family Pupinidae includes the Himalayas, Assam, Myanmar, peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand,[2] Australia,[3] Melanesia, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea.[4]

Taxonomy

Subfamilies and genera within the family Pupinidae include (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):[5]

Pupininae L. Pfeiffer, 1853

Liareinae Powell, 1946 - synonym: Cytoidae Climo, 1969 (n.a.) = not available name

Main article: Liareinae

Pupinellinae Kobelt, 1902 - synonyms: Ventriculidae Wenz, 1915, Pollicariini Thiele, 1929

subfamily ?

Ecology

These snails live in wet forests in leaf litter.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 "WMSD - Worldwide mollusc species DB - Family: PUPINIDAE". accessed 8 July 2012
  2. 2.0 2.1 Tumpeesuwan S. & Panha S. (2008). "First Record of the Genus Schistoloma Kobelt, 1902 (Prosobranchia: Pupinidae) in Thailand". The Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University 8(1): 65-67.
  3. "Pupinidae". Atlas of Living Australia, accessed 8 July 2012.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Pupinidae". Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 8 July 2012.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 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.
  6. Ponder W. F. & Stanisic J. (1996). Suavocallia splendens. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 8 July 2012.

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