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
Pupoides marginatus is endemic to Cuba.[4] The type genus, Pupilla, in direct contrast, has numerous living and extinct species found in Europe, Northern Africa, and North America.
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.)
- 1 2 3 4 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.
- 1 2 3 "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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