Pupilla

Pupilla
Temporal range: Oligocene–Holocene
A right side view of a live Pupilla muscorum
Six shells of Pupilla muscorum, scale bar in mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Pupillidae
Subfamily: Pupillinae
Genus: Pupilla
Fleming, 1828[1]
Type species
Pupa marginata Draparnaud, 1801
Synonyms
  • 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)

Pupilla is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Pupillinae of the family Pupillidae.[2]

Shells of Pupilla species are known from terrestrial Cenozoic strata dating back to the Oligocene until the Holocene period.[3]

  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 Czech) Ivanov M., Hrdličková, S. & Gregorová, R. (2001). Encyklopedie zkamenělin. Rebo Productions, Dobřejovice, 1. vydání, 312 pp., page 125.