Pupillidae
Family of gastropods
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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.[4]
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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 |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Infraorder: | Pupilloidei |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Pupillidae Turton, 1831[2] |
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This family has two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).:[3] Pupillinae W. Turton, 1831 and Pupoidinae Iredale, 1940.
Distribution
Pupoides marginatus is endemic to Cuba.[5] The type genus, Pupilla, in direct contrast, has numerous living and extinct species found in Europe, Northern Africa, North America and South-East Asia.[citation needed]
Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[6]
Genera
Genera within the family Pupillidae include:
- † Albertanella Russell, 1931
- Subfamily Pupillinae W. Turton, 1831
- Gibbulinopsis Germain, 1919
- Microstele O. Boettger, 1886
- Omegapilla Iredale, 1937
- Pupilla Fleming, 1828 - type genus of the family Pupillidae[3]
- Subfamily Pupoidinae Iredale, 1940
- Corena A. Adams, 1870
- Glyptopupoides Pilsbry, 1926
- Pupoides Pfeiffer, 1854[5][3]
- Pupoidopsis Pilsbry & Cooke, 1920
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Australbinula Pilsbry, 1916: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 (junior synonym)
- Famarinia Iredale, 1933: synonym of Glyptopupoides Pilsbry, 1926 (invalid: nomen nudum)
- Gyrodaria Iredale, 1940: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878
- Leucochila E. von Martens, 1860: synonym of Pupoides L. Pfeiffer, 1854
- Leucochiloides L. Pfeiffer, 1879: synonym of Pupoides L. Pfeiffer, 1854
- Papualbinula Iredale, 1941: synonym of Australbinula Pilsbry, 1916: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878
- † Paracoryna Flach, 1890: synonym of Pupilla J. Fleming, 1828 (junior synonym)
- Pupa Draparnaud, 1801: synonym of Pupilla J. Fleming, 1828 (invalid: junior homonym of Pupa Röding, 1798)
- Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898[7] / or in Vertiginidae:[5] synonym of Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773
- Themapupa Iredale, 1930: synonym of Pupoides L. Pfeiffer, 1854
- Torquatella Held, 1838: synonym of Pupilla J. Fleming, 1828
- Wallivertilla Iredale, 1937: synonym of Cylindrovertilla O. Boettger, 1881 (junior synonym)
