Pupilla

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Pupilla
Temporal range: Oligocene–Holocene
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A right side view of a live Pupilla muscorum
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Six shells of Pupilla muscorum, scale bar in mm
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Pupillidae
Subfamily: Pupillinae
Genus: Pupilla
Fleming, 1828 [1]
Type species
Pupa marginataDraparnaud, 1801
Synonyms
  • Glischrus (Pupa)Draparnaud, 1801
  • † ParacorynaFlach, 1890 (junior synonym)
  • PupaDraparnaud, 1801 (invalid: junior homonym of PupaRöding, 1798)
  • Pupa (Pupilla)J. Fleming, 1828
  • Pupilla (Afripupilla)Pilsbry, 1921· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pupilla (Fragipupilla)Schileyko, 1984· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pupilla (Pupilla)J. Fleming, 1828· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pupilla (Striopupilla)Pilsbry, 1921· accepted, alternate representation
  • Sphyradium (Pupa)Draparnaud, 1801
  • TorquatellaHeld, 1838 (junior synonym)
  • Vertigo (Pupa)Draparnaud, 1801 (unaccepted combination)

Pupilla is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Pupillinae of the family Pupillidae. [2]

Contents

Shells of Pupilla species are known from terrestrial Cenozoic strata dating back to the Oligocene until the Holocene period. [3]

Distribution

This genus occurs in Eurasia, northern Africa and North America. [4]

Species

Species within the genus Pupilla include:

Synonyms

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References

  1. ↑ Fleming J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematic arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. pp. i-xxxii [= 1-23], 1-565, [1]. Edinburgh. (Bell & Bradfute).
  2. ↑ -MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pupilla J. Fleming, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=426395 on 2022-03-05
  3. ↑ (in Czech) Ivanov M., Hrdličková, S. & Gregorová, R. (2001). Encyklopedie zkamenělin. Rebo Productions, Dobřejovice, 1. vydání, 312 pp., page 125.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Genus summary for Pupilla". AnimalBase. Last modified 02-09-2006, accessed 30 July 2010.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pokryszko B. M., Auffenberg K., Hlaváč J. Č. & Naggs F. (2009). "Pupilloidea of Pakistan (Gastropoda: Pulmonata): Truncatellininae, Vertigininae, Gastrocoptinae, Pupillinae (In Part)". Annales Zoologici 59(4): 423-458. doi : 10.3161/000345409X484847.
  6. ↑ Kessner V. (1996). Pupilla ficulnea. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  7. ↑ (in Czech) Ložek V. (1954). "Noví měkkýši československého pleistocénu (Neue Mollusken aus dem tschechoslowakischen Pleistozän). Vertigo pseudosubstriata sp. n., Pupilla muscorum densegyrata ssp. n. a Pupilla loessica sp. n." Anthropozoikum3(1953): 327–342, Tab. 1.
  8. ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Pupilla obliquicosta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  9. ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Pupilla pupula. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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