Pupillidae
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Pupillidae | |
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A right side view of a live Pupilla muscorum | |
Six shells of Pupilla muscorum. The scale bar is in mm. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Infraorder: | Pupilloidei |
Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
Family: | Pupillidae Turton, 1831[2] |
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Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.[4]
This family has two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).:[3] Pupillinae W. Turton, 1831 and Pupoidinae Iredale, 1940.