Pupisoma

Pupisoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora clade Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Valloniidae
Genus:	Pupisoma Stoliczka 1873[1]

Pupisoma is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the family Valloniidae.^[2]

Pupisoma is placed within Valloniidae because Pupisomatidae is considered to be a synonym of Valloniidae.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Pupisoma include:

• Pupisoma comicolense H. B. Baker, 1928 ^[3]
• Pupisoma costulata Hausdorf, 2007^[3]
• Pupisoma dioscoricola (C. B. Adams, 1845)^[4]
• Pupisoma orcula (Benson, 1850)^[5]
• Pupisoma macneilli (Clapp, 1918)^[3]
• Pupisoma mediamericanum Pilsbry, 1920^[3]
• Pupisoma sp. nov. 1 from Nicaragua^[6]

References

1. Stoliczka F. (1873). J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 42(2): 32.
2. Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
3. Hausdorf, B. (2007). Revision of the American Pupisoma species (Gastropoda: Pupilloidea). Journal of Natural History 41(21-24):1481-1511.
4. "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
5. Seddon M. B. (2000). Pupisoma orcula. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
6. Perez A. M. (1996). "Pupisoma sp. nov. 1". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 5 April 2011.

Further reading

• Hausdorf B. (2007). "Revision of the American Pupisoma species (Gastropoda: Pupilloidea)". Journal of Natural History 41(21-24): 1481–1511. doi:10.1080/00222930701401069.