Pupinidae

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).

Pupinidae
Pupinella rufa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
Informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Cyclophoroidea
Family:
Pupinidae

L. Pfeiffer, 1853
Diversity[1]
at least 121 extant species

Distribution

The distribution of the family Pupinidae includes the Himalayas, Assam, Myanmar, peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand,[2] Australia,[3] Melanesia, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea.[4]

Taxonomy
†Schistoloma electrothauma holotype in Burmese amber

Subfamilies and genera within the family Pupinidae include (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):[5]

Pupininae L. Pfeiffer, 1853

  • Alpinipupina Stanisic, 2010
  • Barnaia Thach, 2017
  • Callianella R. B. Newton, 1891[1]
  • Cordillerapina Stanisic, 2010
  • Hargravesia H. Adams, 1871
  • Hildapina Iredale, 1940
  • Ischurostoma Bourguignat, 1874
  • Moulinsia Grateloup, 1840[1]
  • Necopupina Iredale, 1937
  • Porocallia Möllendorff, 1893
  • Pupina Vingard, 1829 - type genus of the subfamily Pupininae[1][5]
  • Signepupina Iredale, 1937
  • Siphonostyla Kobelt, 1897
  • Tylotoechus Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897

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

Main article: Liareinae

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

  • Bellardiella Tapparone Canefri, 1883
  • Csomapupa Páll-Gergely, 2015
  • Hedleya Cox, 1892
  • Nodopomatias Gude, 1921
  • Pseudopomatias Möllendorff, 1885[1]
  • Pupinella Gray [in Baird], 1850 - type genus of the subfamily Pupinellinae[1][5]
  • Raphaulus Pfeiffer, 1856[1]
  • Scaeopupina Iredale, 1941
  • Schistoloma Kobelt, 1902[1][2]
  • Streptaulus Benson, 1857[1]
  • Tortulosa Gray, 1847[1]
  • Vargapupa Páll-Gergely, 2015

subfamily incertae sedis

Ecology

These snails live in wet forests in leaf litter.[4]

References
  1. "WMSD - Worldwide mollusc species DB - Family: PUPINIDAE". accessed 8 July 2012
  2. 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.
  3. "Pupinidae". Atlas of Living Australia, accessed 8 July 2012.
  4. "Pupinidae". Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 8 July 2012.
  5. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  6. 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.
  • Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
  • Media related to Pupinidae at Wikimedia Commons
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