Pupinidae is a taxonomic family of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]

Pupinidae
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
Pupinella rufa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Pupinidae
L. Pfeiffer, 1853
Diversity[1]
at least 121 extant species

Distribution edit

The distribution of the family Pupinidae includes the Himalayas, Assam, Myanmar, peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand,[3] Australia,[4] Melanesia, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea.[5]

Taxonomy edit

 
Coptocheilus electrothauma holotype in Burmese amber

Subfamilies and genera within the family Pupinidae include (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):[6]

Pupininae L. Pfeiffer, 1853

Liareinae Powell, 1946 - synonym: Cytoidae Climo, 1969 (n.a.) = not available name

Pollicariinae Thiele, 1929

  • Pollicaria Gould, 1856[1]
  • Hybocystis Benson, 1859: synonym of Pollicaria A.A. Gould, 1856

Pupinellinae Kobelt, 1902 - synonyms: Ventriculidae Wenz, 1915, Pollicariini Thiele, 1929

subfamily incertae sedis

Ecology edit

These snails live in wet forests in leaf litter.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "WMSD - Worldwide mollusc species DB - Family: PUPINIDAE". accessed 8 July 2012
  2. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pupinidae L. Pfeiffer, 1853. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=709516 on 2021-06-05
  3. ^ a b Tumpeesuwan S. & Panha S. (2008). "First Record of the Genus Schistoloma Kobelt, 1902 (Prosobranchia: Pupinidae) in Thailand". The Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University 8(1): 65-67.
  4. ^ "Pupinidae". Atlas of Living Australia, accessed 8 July 2012.
  5. ^ a b "Pupinidae". Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 8 July 2012.
  6. ^ a b c Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  7. ^ Ponder W. F. & Stanisic J. (1996). Suavocallia splendens. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 8 July 2012.
  8. ^ Yu, Tingting; Wang, Bo; Pan, Huazhang (October 2018). "New terrestrial gastropods from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 90: 254–258. Bibcode:2018CrRes..90..254Y. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.04.015. S2CID 135095258.
  • Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

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