Nesopupa

Nesopupa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Vertiginidae
Subfamily: Nesopupinae
Genus: Nesopupa
Pilsbry, 1900[1]

Nesopupa is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vertiginidae.

Nesopupa is the type genus of the subfamily Nesopupinae within the Vertiginidae.[2]

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Nesopupa includes Hawaii, Federated States of Micronesia,[3] Palau,[4] Guam,[5] the Cook Islands,[6] Mauritius,[7] Réunion[8] and Saint Helena.[9]

Species

Species within the genus Nesopupa include:

References

  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1900). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1900: 431.
  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 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. 1 2 Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Nesopupa ponapica. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  4. 1 2 Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Nesopupa eapensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  5. 1 2 Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Nesopupa quadrasi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  6. 1 2 Brook F. J. (2010). "Coastal landsnail fauna of Rarotonga, Cook Islands: systematics, diversity, biogeography, faunal history, and environmental influences". Tuhinga: records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 21: 161-252. abstract.
  7. 1 2 Griffiths O. (1996). Nesopupa rodriguezensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  8. 1 2 Griffiths O. (1996). Nesopupa madgei. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  9. 1 2 Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Nesopupa turtoni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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