Pupilla

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Pupilla
Temporal range: Oligocene–Holocene
A right side view of a live Pupilla muscorum
Six shells of Pupilla muscorum, scale bar in mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Pupillidae
Subfamily: Pupillinae
Genus: Pupilla
Fleming, 1828[1]
Type species
Pupa marginata Draparnaud, 1801
Synonyms
  • Glischrus (Pupa) Draparnaud, 1801
  • Paracoryna Flach, 1890 (junior synonym)
  • Pupa Draparnaud, 1801 (invalid: junior homonym of Pupa Röding, 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
  • Torquatella Held, 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]

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

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

Species

Species within the genus Pupilla include:

Synonyms

References

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