Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pupillidae W. Turton, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=426389 on 2021-07-25
This family has two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).: Pupillinae W. Turton, 1831 and Pupoidinae Iredale, 1940.
Distribution Pupoides marginatus is endemic to Cuba. The type genus, Pupilla, in direct contrast, has numerous living and extinct species found in Europe, Northern Africa, North America and South-East Asia.
Anatomy In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1–146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
Genera Genera within the family Pupillidae include: † Albertanella Russell, 1931 Subfamily Pupillinae W. Turton, 1831 Gibbulinopsis Germain, 1919 Microstele O. Boettger, 1886 Omegapilla Iredale, 1937 Pupilla Fleming, 1828 - type genus of the family Pupillidae Subfamily Pupoidinae Iredale, 1940 Corena A. Adams, 1870 Glyptopupoides Pilsbry, 1926 Pupoides Pfeiffer, 1854"Mollusca" . Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011. Pupoidopsis Pilsbry & Cooke, 1920 Genera brought into synonymy Australbinula Pilsbry, 1916: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 (junior synonym) Famarinia Iredale, 1933: synonym of Glyptopupoides Pilsbry, 1926 (invalid: nomen nudum) Gyrodaria Iredale, 1940: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 Leucochila E. von Martens, 1860: synonym of Pupoides L. Pfeiffer, 1854 Leucochiloides L. Pfeiffer, 1879: synonym of Pupoides L. Pfeiffer, 1854 Papualbinula Iredale, 1941: synonym of Australbinula Pilsbry, 1916: synonym of Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 † Paracoryna Flach, 1890: synonym of Pupilla J. Fleming, 1828 (junior synonym) Pupa Draparnaud, 1801: synonym of Pupilla J. Fleming, 1828 (invalid: junior homonym of Pupa Röding, 1798) Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010. / or in Vertiginidae: synonym of Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773 Themapupa Iredale, 1930: synonym of Pupoides L. Pfeiffer, 1854 Torquatella Held, 1838: synonym of Pupilla J. Fleming, 1828 Wallivertilla Iredale, 1937: synonym of Cylindrovertilla O. Boettger, 1881 (junior synonym)
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Bieler, R. & Slapcinsky, J. (2000). A case study for the development of an island fauna: Recent terrestrial mollusks of Bermuda. Nemouria. 44: 1-99