Pupisoma

Pupisoma
Shell of Pupisoma vermeuleni (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Pupilloidei
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Valloniidae
Genus:	Pupisoma Stoliczka 1873
Type species
Pupa lignicola Stolizcka, 1871
Synonyms
Imputegla Iredale, 1937 Parazoogenetes Habe, 1956 Patula (Ptychopatula) Pilsbry, 1889 (unaccepted combination) Ptychopatula Pilsbry, 1889 Pupa (Pupisoma) Stoliczka, 1873 (unaccepted rank) Pupisoma (Ptychopatula) Pilsbry, 1889· accepted, alternate representation Pupisoma (Pupisoma) Stoliczka, 1873· accepted, alternate representation

Pupisoma is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the family Valloniidae.

Pupisoma is placed within Valloniidae because Pupisomatidae is considered to be a synonym of Valloniidae.

Species

Species within the genus Pupisoma include:

Synonyms

• Pupisoma atens Hylton Scott, 1960: synonym of Pupisoma comicolense H. B. Baker, 1927 (junior synonym)
• Pupisoma bilamellatum van Benthem Jutting, 1958: synonym of Acmella bilamellata (van Benthem Jutting, 1958) (original combination)
• Pupisoma chytrophora (Mabille, 1887): synonym of Tonkinospira chytrophora (Mabille, 1887)
• Pupisoma constrictum (Godwin-Austen, 1895): synonym of Moderata constricta (Godwin-Austen, 1895) (unaccepted combination)
• Pupisoma evezerdi (Hanley & Theobald, 1874): synonym of Pupisoma evezardi (Hanley & Theobald, 1874) (incorrect subsequent spelling)
• Pupisoma galapagorum Pilsbry, 1934: synonym of Pupisoma comicolense H. B. Baker, 1927 (junior synonym)
• Pupisoma harpula (Reinhardt, 1886): synonym of Salpingoma harpula (Reinhardt, 1886)
• Pupisoma insigne Pilsbry, 1920: synonym of Pupisoma dioscoricola insigne Pilsbry, 1920 (unaccepted combination)
• Pupisoma longstaffi Godwin-Austen, 1910: synonym of Pupisoma longstaffae Godwin-Austen, 1910 (incorrect original spelling)
• Pupisoma michoacanensis Pilsbry, 1920: synonym of Pupisoma mediamericanum Pilsbry, 1920 (junior synonym)
• Pupisoma minus Pilsbry, 1920: synonym of Pupisoma macneilli (G. H. Clapp, 1918) (junior synonym)
• Pupisoma orcula (Benson, 1850): synonym of Pupisoma dioscoricola (C. B. Adams, 1845) (junior synonym)
• Pupisoma philippinicum Möllendorff, 1888: synonym of Pupisoma orcula (Benson, 1850): synonym of Pupisoma dioscoricola (C. B. Adams, 1845) (junior synonym)
• Pupisoma seriola (Benson, 1861): synonym of Pupilla seriola (Benson, 1861)
• Pupisoma steudneri (Jickeli, 1874): synonym of Sitala steudneri (Jickeli, 1874) (superseded combination)
• Pupisoma unilamellatum van Benthem Jutting, 1958: synonym of Acmella unilamellata (van Benthem Jutting, 1958) (original combination)

References

• Habe, T. (1956). Anatomical Studies on the Japanese Land Snails (7). Venus (Japanese Journal of Malacology). 19(2): 109–117.
• Hausdorf B. (2007). "Revision of the American Pupisoma species (Gastropoda: Pupilloidea)". Journal of Natural History 41(21–24): 1481–1511. doi:10.1080/00222930701401069.

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• Stoliczka, F. (1873). On the land-shells of Penang island, with descriptions of the animals and anatomical notes; part second, Helicacea. The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Part II, 42 (1): 11-38, pl. 1-3. Calcutta
• Iredale, T. (1937). A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist. 8(4): 287-333
• Pilsbry, H. A. (1889). Nomenclature and check-list of North American land shells. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 41: 191–210
• Godwin-Austen, H. H. (1882-1920). Land and freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean. Supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. London, Taylor & Francis. Vol. 1(1): i-iv, 1-18, pls 1-4