Genus Pupoides Pfeiffer, 1854
Pupasnails
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Dr John Stanisic
- 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
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
- 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
- Solem, A. 1989. Non-camaenid land snails of the Kimberley and Northern Territory, Australia. I. Systematics, affinities and ranges. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2(4): 455-604
- Solem, A. 1991. Distribution and diversity patterns of Australian pupilloid land snails (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Pupillidae, s.l.). Veliger 34(3): 233-252
- Zilch, A. 1959. Gastropoda. Teil 2. Euthyneura. In, Schindewolf, O.H. (ed.). Handbuch der Paläozoologie. Berlin-Zehlendorf : Bornträger Vol. 6(2)(2) xii 834 pp. [168]
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]
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]
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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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) |