Pupillidae
Sign in to savePupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Species
column snails
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyPupillidae
Observations recorded45,580
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 412
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Pupillidae
- Collections
- SDNHM, AUM, UTEP, NCSM, CM, MZLU
- Recorded in
- United States, Jamaica, Mexico, Cuba
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Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
This family has two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).: Pupillinae W. Turton, 1831 and Pupoidinae Iredale, 1940.
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