Pupillidae
Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
This family has no subfamilies.Distribution
Pupoides marginatus is endemic to Cuba. The type genus, Pupilla, in direct contrast, has numerous living and extinct species found in Europe, Northern Africa, and North America.Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30.Genera
Genera within the family Pupillidae include:
- Gyliotrachela Tomlin, 1930
- Lyropupa Pilsbry, 1900
- Pronesopupa Iredale, 1913
- Ptychalaea Boettger, 1889
- Pupilla Fleming, 1828 - type genus of the family Pupillidae
- Pupoides Pfeiffer, 1854
- Pupoidopsis Pilsbry & Cooke, 1920
- Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898 / or in Vertiginidae
