Pupilla
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pupilla is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Pupillinae of the family Pupillidae.[2]
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Pupilla | |
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A right side view of a live Pupilla muscorum | |
Six shells of Pupilla muscorum, scale bar in mm | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
Family: | Pupillidae |
Subfamily: | Pupillinae |
Genus: | Pupilla Fleming, 1828[1] |
Type species | |
Pupa marginata Draparnaud, 1801 | |
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Shells of Pupilla species are known from terrestrial Cenozoic strata dating back to the Oligocene until the Holocene period.[3]