Pupisoma

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Phylum:Mollusca
Infraorder:Pupilloidei
Pupisoma
Shell of Pupisoma vermeuleni (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Pupilloidei
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Valloniidae
Genus: Pupisoma
Stoliczka 1873[1]
Type species
Pupa lignicola Stolizcka, 1871
Synonyms[2]
  • Imputegla Iredale, 1937
  • Parazoogenetes Habe, 1956
  • Patula (Ptychopatula) Pilsbry, 1889 (unaccepted combination)
  • Ptychopatula Pilsbry, 1889
  • Pupa (Pupisoma) Stoliczka, 1873 (unaccepted rank)
  • Pupisoma (Ptychopatula) Pilsbry, 1889· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pupisoma (Pupisoma) Stoliczka, 1873· accepted, alternate representation

Pupisoma is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the family Valloniidae.[3][4]

Pupisoma is placed within Valloniidae because Pupisomatidae is considered to be a synonym of Valloniidae.[3]

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