Pupinidae

Pupinidae is a taxonomic family of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Distribution

The distribution of the family Pupinidae includes the Himalayas, Assam, Myanmar, peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea.

Subfamilies and genera within the family Pupinidae include (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Pupininae L. Pfeiffer, 1853

Liareinae Powell, 1946 - synonym: Cytoidae Climo, 1969 (n.a.) = not available name

Pollicariinae Thiele, 1929

Pupinellinae Kobelt, 1902 - synonyms: Ventriculidae Wenz, 1915, Pollicariini Thiele, 1929

Barnaia Thach, 2017
Bellardiella Tapparone Canefri, 1883
Coptocheilus Gould, 1862
Csomapupa Páll-Gergely, 2015
Didomasta Iredale, 1941
Hedleya Cox, 1892
† Kallomastoma Stache, 1889
Nodopomatias Gude, 1921
Pseudopomatias Möllendorff, 1885
Pupinella Gray [in Baird], 1850 - type genus of the subfamily Pupinellinae
Raphaulus Pfeiffer, 1856
Scaeopupina Iredale, 1941
Schistoloma Kobelt, 1902: synonym of Coptocheilus A. Gould, 1862 (unnecessary replacement name)
Streptaulus Benson, 1857
Tortulosa Gray, 1847
Vargapupa Páll-Gergely, 2015

subfamily incertae sedis

(extinct) Cretatortulosa Yu, Wang and Pan, 2018 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian.

These snails live in wet forests in leaf litter.

Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017