Pupilla

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Genus of gastropods

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::summary Genus of gastropods ::

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  • Glischrus (Pupa) Draparnaud, 1801
  • † Paracoryna Flach, 1890 (junior synonym)
  • Pupa Draparnaud, 1801 (invalid: junior homonym of Pupa Röding, 1798)
  • Pupa (Pupilla) J. Fleming, 1828
  • Pupilla (Afripupilla) Pilsbry, 1921· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pupilla (Fragipupilla) Schileyko, 1984· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pupilla (Pupilla) J. Fleming, 1828· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pupilla (Striopupilla) Pilsbry, 1921· accepted, alternate representation
  • Sphyradium (Pupa) Draparnaud, 1801
  • Torquatella Held, 1838 (junior synonym)
  • Vertigo (Pupa) Draparnaud, 1801 (unaccepted combination) |display_parents= 3

Pupilla is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Pupillinae of the family Pupillidae.

Shells of Pupilla species are known from terrestrial Cenozoic strata dating back to the Oligocene until the Holocene period.

Distribution

This genus occurs in Eurasia, northern Africa and North America.

Species

Species within the genus Pupilla include:

Synonyms

  • Pupilla barrackporensis Gude, 1914: synonym of Insulipupa malayana (Issel, 1874) (junior synonym)
  • Pupilla cinghalensis Gude, 1914: synonym of Indopupa cinghalensis (Gude, 1914) (original combination)
  • Pupilla cryptodon (Heude, 1880): synonym of Gibbulinopsis cryptodon (Heude, 1880) (unaccepted combination)
  • Pupilla cupa (Jan 1832): synonym of Pupilla muscorum (Linnaeus, 1758) (junior synonym)
  • Pupilla draparnaudi Leach [in Turton], 1831: synonym of Lauria cylindracea (Da Costa, 1778)
  • Pupilla floridana Dall, 1885: synonym of Gastrocopta pentodon (Say, 1822) (junior synonym)
  • Pupilla fontana (Krauss, 1848): synonym of Gibbulinopsis fontana (F. Krauss, 1848) (superseded combination)
  • Pupilla gracilis Izzatullaev, 1970: synonym of Gibbulinopsis gracilis (Izzatullaev, 1970) (original combination)
  • Pupilla hudsonianum [sic]: synonym of Pupilla hudsoniana Nekola & Coles, 2014 (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
  • Pupilla muscerda (Benson, 1853): synonym of Microstele muscerda (Benson, 1853) (unaccepted combination)
  • Pupilla pratensis (Clessin, 1871): synonym of Pupilla alpicola (Charpentier, 1837) (unaccepted junior subjective synonym)
  • † Pupilla quadrigranata (F. Sandberger, 1858): synonym of † Pupilla selecta (Thomä, 1845) (junior synonym)
  • Pupilla reibischi Dall & Ochsner, 1928: synonym of Gastrocopta reibischi (Dall & Ochsner, 1928) (original name)
  • Pupilla salmensis (W. T. Blanford & H. F. Blanford, 1861): synonym of Pupilla salemensis (W. T. Blanford & H. F. Blanford, 1861) (misspelling of original name.)
  • Pupilla signata (Mousson, 1873): synonym of Gibbulinopsis signata (Mousson, 1873)
  • Pupilla stoneri Chamberlin & Jones, 1929: synonym of Gastrocopta pilsbryana (Sterki, 1890)
  • † Pupilla submuscorum Gottschick & Wenz, 1919: synonym of † Gibbulinopsis submuscorum (Gottschick & Wenz, 1919)
  • Pupilla wolfae Tzvetkov, 1940: synonym of Pupilla sterrii (Voith, 1840) (junior synonym)

References

  • Flach, K. (1890). Palaeontologische Beiträge. Verhandlungen der Physikalisch-Medicinischen Gesellschaft zu Würzburg, Neue Folge. 24(3): 49–59, pl. 1.
  • Schileyko, A. A. (1984). Nazemnye molljuski podotrjada Pupillina fauny SSSR (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Geophila). In:. Fauna SSSR, Molljuski. III, 3
  • Held, F. (1837–1838). Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns. Isis (Oken), 30 (4): 303–309 (1837); 30 (12): 901–919 (1838). Leipzig

References

  1. Fleming J. (1828). ''A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematic arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants''. pp. i–xxxii [= 1–23], 1–565, [1]. Edinburgh. (Bell & Bradfute).
  2. -MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pupilla J. Fleming, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=426395 on 5 March 2022
  3. {{in lang. cs Ivanov M., Hrdličková, S. & Gregorová, R. (2001). ''Encyklopedie zkamenělin''. Rebo Productions, Dobřejovice, 1. vydání, 312 pp., page 125.
  4. [http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=612 "Genus summary for ''Pupilla''"]. [[AnimalBase]]. Last modified 2 September 2006, accessed 30 July 2010.
  5. Kessner V. (1996). [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/18910/all ''Pupilla ficulnea'']. [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.] Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  6. Pokryszko B. M., Auffenberg K., Hlaváč J. Č. & Naggs F. (2009). "Pupilloidea of Pakistan (Gastropoda: Pulmonata): Truncatellininae, Vertigininae, Gastrocoptinae, Pupillinae (In Part)". ''[[Annales Zoologici]]'' '''59'''(4): 423–458. {{doi. 10.3161/000345409X484847.
  7. {{in lang. cs Ložek V. (1954). "Noví měkkýši československého pleistocénu (Neue Mollusken aus dem tschechoslowakischen Pleistozän). ''Vertigo pseudosubstriata'' sp. n., ''Pupilla muscorum densegyrata'' ssp. n. a ''Pupilla loessica'' sp. n." ''Anthropozoikum'' '''3'''(1953): 327–342, Tab. 1.
  8. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/18912/all ''Pupilla obliquicosta'']. [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.] Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  9. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/18911/all ''Pupilla pupula'']. [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.] Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

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