Pupilla
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Pupilla Temporal range: Oligocene–Holocene |
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| A right side view of a live Pupilla muscorum | |
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| Six shells of Pupilla muscorum, scale bar in mm | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Pupillidae |
| Genus: |
Pupilla Fleming, 1828 |
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra
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
subgenus Gibbulinopsis
subgenus ?
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