Pupinidae

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Pupinidae
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
Pupinella rufa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Pupinidae
L. Pfeiffer, 1853
Diversity[1]
at least 121 extant species

Pupinidae is a taxonomic family of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]

The distribution of the family Pupinidae includes the Himalayas, Assam, Myanmar, peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand,[3] Australia,[4] Melanesia, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea.[5]

Taxonomy

Coptocheilus electrothauma holotype in Burmese amber

Subfamilies and genera within the family Pupinidae include (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):[6]

Pupininae L. Pfeiffer, 1853

Liareinae Powell, 1946 - synonym: Cytoidae Climo, 1969 (n.a.) = not available name

Pollicariinae Thiele, 1929

  • Pollicaria Gould, 1856[1]
  • Hybocystis Benson, 1859: synonym of Pollicaria A.A. Gould, 1856

Pupinellinae Kobelt, 1902 - synonyms: Ventriculidae Wenz, 1915, Pollicariini Thiele, 1929

subfamily incertae sedis

Ecology

References

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