Pupilla

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Kingdom Animalia Family Pupillidae Phylum Mollusca Rank Genus		Superfamily Pupilloidea Scientific name Pupilla Higher classification Pupillidae

Lower classifications Pupilla muscorum, Pupilla blandi

Il generale pupilla

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

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

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

Pupilla has several subgenera. Species within the genus Pupilla include:

subgenus Pupilla

Pupilla bigranata (Rossmässler 1839)

Pupilla blandi E. S. Morse, 1865 - Rocky Mountain column

Pupilla hebes (Ancey 1881) - crestless column

Pupilla muscorum (Linnaeus, 1758) - widespread column - type species

Pupilla pratensis (Clessin, 1871)

Pupilla triplicata (Studer, 1820)

subgenus Gibbulinopsis

subgenus ?

Pupilla alpicola (Charpentier, 1837)

Pupilla annandalei Pilsbry

Pupilla calacharicus (Boettger, 1886)

Pupilla ficulnea (Tate, 1894)

Pupilla fontana (Krauss, 1848)

Pupilla khunjerabica Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009

Pupilla loessica Ložek, 1954

Pupilla obliquicosta Smith, 1892 - extinct

Pupilla paraturcmenica Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009

Pupilla pupula

Pupilla satparanica Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009

Pupilla signata (Mousson)

Pupilla sonorana (Sterki, 1899) - three-tooth column

Pupilla sterrii (Forster & Voith, 1840)

Pupilla syngenes (Pilsbry, 1890) - top-heavy column

Pupilla tetrodus (Boettger, 1870)

Pupilla turcmenica (O. Boettger)

Pupilla ziaratana Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009

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