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Pupillidae

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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.

Species

column snails

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderStylommatophora
  5. 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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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • Distribution
  • Anatomy
  • Genera
  • References
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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pupillidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.