Pupillidae

Pupillidae; Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	A right side view of a live Pupilla muscorum
	Six shells of Pupilla muscorum. The scale bar is in mm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Pupillidae; Turton, 1831[2]
Synonyms[3]
	Pupinae Flemming, 1828 (inv.); Pupoididae Iredale, 1939;

Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[3]

Distribution

Pupoides marginatus is endemic to Cuba.[4] The type genus, Pupilla, in direct contrast, has numerous living and extinct species found in Europe, Northern Africa, and North America.

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[5]

Genera

Genera within the family Pupillidae include:

Gyliotrachela Tomlin, 1930
Lyropupa Pilsbry, 1900
Pronesopupa Iredale, 1913
Ptychalaea Boettger, 1889
Pupilla Fleming, 1828 - type genus of the family Pupillidae[3]
Pupoides Pfeiffer, 1854[4][3]
Pupoidopsis Pilsbry & Cooke, 1920
Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898[6] / or in Vertiginidae[4]

References

"Family summary for Pupillidae". AnimalBase, accessed 5 April 2011.
Turton W. (1831). A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands. 152 pp., 9, plates. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Greene, London.8: 97. (original spelling: Pupilladae.)
Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
"Mollusca" Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. 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.
Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.

External links

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[1] "Family summary for Pupillidae". AnimalBase, accessed 5 April 2011.

[2] Turton W. (1831). A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands. 152 pp., 9, plates. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Greene, London.8: 97. (original spelling: Pupilladae.)

[Bouchet_2005-3] Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.

[ecosis.cu-4] "Mollusca" Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.

[Barker-5] 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.

[NatureServe-6] Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.