Pupillidae
Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
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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. | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra |
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| Family: | Pupillidae |
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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, 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).[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.)
- 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.
- "Mollusca" Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. 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.
External links
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