Pupilla
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Pupilla is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of minute air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
Micromollusk
A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...

s in the family Pupillidae
Pupillidae
Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Stylommatophora....

.

The genus Pupilla is known from the Oligocene
Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 34 million to 23 million years before the present . As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are slightly...

 to the Recent period.

Species

Pupilla has several subgenera. Species within the genus Pupilla include:

subgenus Pupilla
  • Pupilla bigranata
    Pupilla bigranata
    Pupilla bigranata is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae.- Description :...

    (Rossmässler 1839)
  • Pupilla blandi
    Pupilla blandi
    Pupilla blandi, common name the Rocky Mountain column, is a species of very small or minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae.- External links :...

    E. S. Morse, 1865 - Rocky Mountain column
  • Pupilla hebes (Ancey 1881) - crestless column
  • Pupilla muscorum
    Pupilla muscorum
    Pupilla muscorum is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae.- Taxonomy :A variety Pupilla muscorum var...

    (Linnaeus, 1758) - widespread column - type species
  • Pupilla pratensis
    Pupilla pratensis
    Pupilla pratensis is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae. This taxon was elevated to species level in 2009.- Taxonomy :...

    (Clessin, 1871)
  • Pupilla triplicata
    Pupilla triplicata
    Pupilla triplicata is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae.- Distribution :...

    (Studer, 1820)


subgenus Gibbulinopsis

subgenus ?
  • Pupilla alpicola
    Pupilla alpicola
    Pupilla alpicola is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae.- Description :...

    (Charpentier, 1837)
  • Pupilla annandalei Pilsbry
  • Pupilla calacharicus (Boettger, 1886)
  • Pupilla ficulnea
    Pupilla ficulnea
    Pupilla ficulnea is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae. This species is endemic to Australia....

    (Tate, 1894)
  • Pupilla fontana (Krauss, 1848)
  • Pupilla khunjerabica Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009
  • Pupilla loessica
    Pupilla loessica
    Pupilla loessica is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae.- Distribution :Fossil distribution of Pupilla loessica include:...

    Ložek, 1954
  • Pupilla obliquicosta
    Pupilla obliquicosta
    †Pupilla obliquicosta was a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae. This species was endemic to Saint Helena. It is now extinct....

    Smith, 1892 - extinct
  • Pupilla paraturcmenica Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009
  • Pupilla pupula
    Pupilla pupula
    Pupilla pupula is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae. This species is endemic to the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean....

  • Pupilla satparanica Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009
  • Pupilla signata (Mousson)
  • Pupilla sonorana (Sterki, 1899) - three-tooth column
  • Pupilla sterrii
    Pupilla sterrii
    Pupilla sterrii is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae.- Distribution :...

    (Forster & Voith, 1840)
  • Pupilla syngenes (Pilsbry, 1890) - top-heavy column
  • Pupilla tetrodus (Boettger, 1870)
  • Pupilla turcmenica (O. Boettger)
  • Pupilla ziaratana Pokryszko, Auffenberg, Hlaváč & Naggs, 2009
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