Pupillidae Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent |
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A right side view of a live Pupilla muscorum | |
Six shells of Pupilla muscorum. The scale bar is in mm. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
Family: |
Pupillidae Turton, 1831 |
Synonyms | |
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clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra
Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Pupoides marginatus is endemic to Cuba. The type genus, Pupilla, in direct contrast, has numerous living and extinct species found in Europe, Northern Africa, and North America.
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).
Genera within the family Pupillidae include: