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Pupilla

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

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

Distribution

This genus occurs in Eurasia, northern Africa and North America.

Species

Species within the genus Pupilla include:

Synonyms

  • Pupilla barrackporensis <small>Gude, 1914</small>: synonym of Insulipupa malayana <small>(Issel, 1874)</small> (junior synonym)
  • Pupilla cinghalensis <small>Gude, 1914</small>: synonym of Indopupa cinghalensis <small>(Gude, 1914)</small> (original combination)
  • Pupilla cryptodon <small>(Heude, 1880)</small>: synonym of Gibbulinopsis cryptodon <small>(Heude, 1880)</small> (unaccepted combination)
  • Pupilla cupa <small>(Jan 1832)</small>: synonym of Pupilla muscorum <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> (junior synonym)
  • Pupilla draparnaudi <small>Leach [in Turton], 1831</small>: synonym of Lauria cylindracea <small>(Da Costa, 1778)</small>
  • Pupilla floridana <small>Dall, 1885</small>: synonym of Gastrocopta pentodon <small>(Say, 1822)</small> (junior synonym)
  • Pupilla fontana <small>(Krauss, 1848)</small>: synonym of Gibbulinopsis fontana <small>(F. Krauss, 1848)</small> (superseded combination)
  • Pupilla gracilis <small>Izzatullaev, 1970</small>: synonym of Gibbulinopsis gracilis <small>(Izzatullaev, 1970)</small> (original combination)
  • Pupilla hudsonianum [sic]: synonym of Pupilla hudsoniana <small>Nekola & Coles, 2014</small> (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
  • Pupilla muscerda <small>(Benson, 1853)</small>: synonym of Microstele muscerda <small>(Benson, 1853)</small> (unaccepted combination)
  • Pupilla pratensis <small>(Clessin, 1871)</small>: synonym of Pupilla alpicola <small>(Charpentier, 1837)</small> (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  • † Pupilla quadrigranata <small>(F. Sandberger, 1858)</small>: synonym of † Pupilla selecta <small>(Thomä, 1845)</small> (junior synonym)
  • Pupilla reibischi <small>Dall & Ochsner, 1928</small>: synonym of Gastrocopta reibischi <small>(Dall & Ochsner, 1928)</small> (original name)
  • Pupilla salmensis (W. T. Blanford & H. F. Blanford, 1861): synonym of Pupilla salemensis <small>(W. T. Blanford & H. F. Blanford, 1861)</small> (misspelling of original name.)
  • Pupilla signata <small>(Mousson, 1873)</small>: synonym of Gibbulinopsis signata <small>(Mousson, 1873)</small>
  • Pupilla stoneri <small>Chamberlin & Jones, 1929</small>: synonym of Gastrocopta pilsbryana <small>(Sterki, 1890)</small>
  • † Pupilla submuscorum <small>Gottschick & Wenz, 1919</small>: synonym of † Gibbulinopsis submuscorum <small>(Gottschick & Wenz, 1919)</small>
  • Pupilla wolfae <small>Tzvetkov, 1940</small>: synonym of Pupilla sterrii <small>(Voith, 1840)</small> (junior synonym)

References

  • Flach, K. (1890). Palaeontologische Beiträge. Verhandlungen der Physikalisch-Medicinischen Gesellschaft zu Würzburg, Neue Folge. 24(3): 49–59, pl. 1.
  • Schileyko, A. A. (1984). Nazemnye molljuski podotrjada Pupillina fauny SSSR (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Geophila). In:. Fauna SSSR, Molljuski. III, 3
  • Held, F. (1837–1838). Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns. Isis (Oken), 30 (4): 303–309 (1837); 30 (12): 901–919 (1838). Leipzig

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