Pupillidae

Pupillidae
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent[1]
A right side view of a live Pupilla muscorum
Six shells of Pupilla muscorum. The scale bar is in mm.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Pupilloidei
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.[4]

This family has two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).:[3] Pupillinae W. Turton, 1831 and Pupoidinae Iredale, 1940.

  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.)
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Bouchet 2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pupillidae W. Turton, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=426389 on 2021-07-25