Pupillidae
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| Pupillidae Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent[1] |
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| Six shells of Pupilla muscorum. The scale bar is in mm. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Pupillidae Turton, 1831 |
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Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
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[edit] Distribution
There is one species Pupoides marginatus from the family Pupillidae in Cuba.[2]
[edit] Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[3]
[edit] Genera
Genera within the family Pupillidae include:
- Gyliotrachela Tomlin, 1930[citation needed]
- Lyropupa Pilsbry, 1900[citation needed]
- Pronesopupa Iredale, 1913[citation needed]
- Ptychalaea Boettger, 1889[citation needed]
- Pupilla Fleming, 1828 - type genus of the family Pupillidae[4]
- Pupoides Pfeiffer, 1854[2][4]
- Pupoidopsis Pilsbry & Cooke, 1920[citation needed]
- Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898[5] / or in Vertiginidae[2][clarification needed]
[edit] References
- ^ "Family summary for Pupillidae". AnimalBase, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ^ a b c "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
- ^ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
- ^ a b Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst.
- ^ Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.
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