Nesopupa

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Phylum:Mollusca
Infraorder:Pupilloidei
Nesopupa
Shell of Nesopupa paivae (Syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Pupilloidei
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Vertiginidae
Genus: Nesopupa
Pilsbry, 1900[1]
Type species
Pupa (Vertigo) tantilla A. Gould, 1847
Synonyms[2]
  • Australbinula (Westralcopta) Iredale, 1939 (junior synonym)
  • Nesopupa (Cocopupa) Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920· accepted, alternate representation
  • Nesopupa (Infranesopupa) Cooke & Pilsbry, 1920· accepted, alternate representation
  • Nesopupa (Limbatipupa) Cooke & Pilsbry, 1920· accepted, alternate representation
  • Nesopupa (Nesodagys) Cooke & Pilsbry, 1920· accepted, alternate representation
  • Nesopupa (Nesopupa) Pilsbry, 1900· accepted, alternate representation
  • Nesopupa (Nesopupilla) Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920· accepted, alternate representation
  • Ptychochilus O. Boettger, 1881
  • Pupa (Pagodella) H. Adams, 1867 (invalid; not Swainson, 1840)
  • Somniopupa Iredale, 1937 (junior synonym)
  • Vertigo (Ptychochilus) O. Boettger, 1881 (Invalid: Placed on the Official Index by Opinion 1823, 1996, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 53: 53. Nesopupa is an objective synonym)
  • Westralcopta Iredale, 1939 (junior synonym)

Nesopupa is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Nesopupinae of the family Vertiginidae.[2]

Nesopupa is the type genus of the subfamily Nesopupinae within the Vertiginidae.[3]

The distribution of the genus Nesopupa includes Hawaii, Federated States of Micronesia,[4] Palau,[5] Guam,[6] the Cook Islands,[7] Mauritius,[8] Réunion[9] and Saint Helena.[10]

Species

Species within the genus Nesopupa include:

Synonyms

References

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