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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

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Pupilloidea
Image
Pupilla muscorum.jpg
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Commons category
Pupillidae
taxon rank
family
taxon name
Pupillidae
topic's main category
Category:Pupillidae
taxon common name
puppesnegler
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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • Distribution
  • Anatomy
  • Genera
  • References
  • External links

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.