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Pupilloidea

(Superfamily)

Overview

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The Pupilloidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Orthurethra.1]

Taxonomy

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This superfamily contains the following families:[1]

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  1. ^ a b Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Fr?da J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Vald?s ?. & War?n A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1?397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 

Taxonomy

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The Superfamily Pupilloidea is further organized into finer groupings including:

Families

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Argnidae

Argnidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. [more]

Chondrinidae

Chondrinidae is a family of mostly minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Pulmonata. [more]

Cylindrellinidae

?Cylindrellinidae is an extinct family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. [more]

Lauriidae

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Orculidae

Orculidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails; terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Pulmonata. [more]

Pleurodiscidae

Pleurodiscus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. [more]

Pupillidae

Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Stylommatophora. [more]

Pyramidulidae

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Spelaeoconchidae

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Spelaeodiscidae

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Strobilopsidae

Strobilopsidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. [more]

Valloniidae

Valloniidae is a taxonomic family of small and minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora. [more]

Vertiginidae

Vertiginidae is a family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. [more]

At least 361 species and subspecies belong to the Family Vertiginidae.

More info about the Family Vertiginidae may be found here.

References

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  1. ^ a b Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Fr?da J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Vald?s ?. & War?n A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1?397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 

Sources

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Last Revised: August 24, 2012
2012/08/24 17:29:14