Pupinidae

Pupinidae
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
Pupinella rufa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Pupinidae
L. Pfeiffer, 1853
Diversity
at least 121 extant species

Pupinidae is a taxonomic family of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Distribution

The distribution of the family Pupinidae includes the Himalayas, Assam, Myanmar, peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea.

Taxonomy

† Coptocheilus electrothauma holotype in Burmese amber

Subfamilies and genera within the family Pupinidae include (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Pupininae L. Pfeiffer, 1853

Liareinae Powell, 1946 - synonym: Cytoidae Climo, 1969 (n.a.) = not available name

Pollicariinae Thiele, 1929

Pupinellinae Kobelt, 1902 - synonyms: Ventriculidae Wenz, 1915, Pollicariini Thiele, 1929

subfamily incertae sedis

Ecology

These snails live in wet forests in leaf litter.

References

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  8. ↑ Yu, Tingting; Wang, Bo; Pan, Huazhang (October 2018). "New terrestrial gastropods from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 90: 254–258. Bibcode:2018CrRes..90..254Y. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.04.015. S2CID 135095258.