Genus Pupoides Pfeiffer, 1854

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pupoides Pfeiffer, L. 1854. Zur Molluskenfauna der Insel Cuba. Malakozoologische Blätter 1: 170-213 [192].

  Type species:

   Bulimus nitidus Pfeiffer, 1854 by subsequent designation, see Gude, G.K. 1921. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mollusca. Land operculates. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 3 386 pp. 42 figs.
• Themapupa Iredale, T. 1930. Notes on some desert snails. Victorian Naturalist 42: 118-120 [Nov. 1930] [120].

  Type species:

   Pupa beltiana Tate, 1894 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Solem, A. 1986. Pupilloid land snails from the south and mid-west coasts of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 7: 95-124 [107]

 

Introduction

Pupoides is a widely distributed group within Australia occurring mostly in drier forests and shrubland. The genus is distinguished form other Australian pupillids by the combination of elongately conical shape and an aperture with a single parietal barrier. It includes both dextrally coiled and sinistrally coiled species.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropics, subtropics and drier areas of Australia. Elsewhere Africa, Asia and North and South America

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, Qld: Burt Plain (BRT), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Tanami (TAN) ; NT, Qld, SA, WA: MacDonnell Ranges (MAC) ; NT, SA, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Central Ranges (CR), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS) ; SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Yalgoo (YAL) ; WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Shell very small, elongately conical, smooth, sinistral or dextral; aperture ovate with a single upper parietal denticle; outer lip strongly reflected; umbilicus a narrow chink. Colour waxy brown.

 

Diagnosis References

Solem, A. 1986. Pupilloid land snails from the south and mid-west coasts of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 7: 95-124 [107]

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [98]

 

General References

Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp. [295]

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [98]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Feb-2014	PUPILLIDAE	11-Feb-2014	MODIFIED
24-Jul-2012		24-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
27-Jun-2012		27-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)