Pupilla

Pupilla
Temporal range: Oligocene–Holocene
A right side view of a live Pupilla muscorum
Six shells of Pupilla muscorum, scale bar in mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Pupillidae
Subfamily: Pupillinae
Genus: Pupilla
Fleming, 1828
Type species
Pupa marginata Draparnaud, 1801
Synonyms
  • Glischrus (Pupa) Draparnaud, 1801
  • † Paracoryna Flach, 1890 (junior synonym)
  • Pupa Draparnaud, 1801 (invalid: junior homonym of Pupa Röding, 1798)
  • Pupa (Pupilla) J. Fleming, 1828
  • Pupilla (Afripupilla) Pilsbry, 1921· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pupilla (Fragipupilla) Schileyko, 1984· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pupilla (Pupilla) J. Fleming, 1828· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pupilla (Striopupilla) Pilsbry, 1921· accepted, alternate representation
  • Sphyradium (Pupa) Draparnaud, 1801
  • Torquatella Held, 1838 (junior synonym)
  • Vertigo (Pupa) Draparnaud, 1801 (unaccepted combination)

Pupilla is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Pupillinae of the family Pupillidae.

Shells of Pupilla species are known from terrestrial Cenozoic strata dating back to the Oligocene until the Holocene period.

Distribution

This genus occurs in Eurasia, northern Africa and North America.

Species

Species within the genus Pupilla include:

Synonyms