''Afripupa'' is a
genus
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of very small air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s in the subfamily
Nesopupinae of the family
Vertiginidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Afripupa Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine * At: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934433 on 2021-09-30]
Taxonomy
This genus has become a synonym of ''Vertigo (Staurodon)''
R. T. Lowe, 1852 represented as
Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773. ''Afripupa'' has been formerly assigned to the Nesopupinae. The recent molecular phylogeny of the Vertiginidae by Nekola & Coles (2016) suggests a close relationship of ''Afripupa'' with ''Vertigo'' instead.
[Nekola, J.C.; Chiba, S.; Coles, B.F.; Drost, C.A.; Proschwitz, T. von; Horsák, M. (2018). A phylogenetic overview of the genus Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupillidae: Vertigininae). Malacologia. 62(1): 21–161.]
Species
* † ''
Afripupa blumi''
(O. Boettger, 1884)
* ''
Afripupa densestriata''
(Adam, 1954)
* ''
Afripupa kanongae
''Afripupa'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Nesopupinae of the family Vertiginidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Afripupa Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920. Ac ...
''
(Adam, 1954)
* † ''
Afripupa kenyensis''
Pickford, 2019
* ''
Afripupa misaliensis
''Afripupa'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Nesopupinae of the family Vertiginidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Afripupa Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920. Ac ...
''
Gittenberger & van Bruggen, 2013
* ''
Afripupa pelengeae
''Afripupa'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Nesopupinae of the family Vertiginidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Afripupa Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920. Ac ...
''
(Adam, 1954)
* ''
Afripupa rodriguezensis
''Afripupa rodriguezensis'' is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Afripupa rodriguezensis (Connolly, 1 ...
''
(Connolly, 1925)
* ''
Afripupa vengoensis
''Afripupa'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Nesopupinae of the family Vertiginidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Afripupa Pilsbry & C. M ...
''
(Connolly, 1925)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Afripupa bisulcata''
(Jickeli, 1873): synonym of ''
Vertigo bisulcata
Vertigo is a condition where a person has the sensation of movement or of surrounding objects moving when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. This may be associated with nausea, vomiting, sweating, or difficulties w ...
''
(Jickeli, 1873)
* ''Afripupa farquhari''
(Pilsbry, 1917): synonym of ''
Vertigo farquhari
Vertigo is a condition where a person has the sensation of movement or of surrounding objects moving when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. This may be associated with nausea, vomiting, sweating, or difficulties w ...
''
Pilsbry, 1917 (superseded combination)
* ''Afripupa griqualandica''
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893): synonym of ''
Vertigo griqualandica
Vertigo is a condition where a person has the sensation of movement or of surrounding objects moving when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. This may be associated with nausea, vomiting, sweating, or difficulties w ...
''
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893) (superseded combination)
* ''Afripupa iota''
(Preston, 1911): synonym of ''Afripupa bisulcata''
(Jickeli, 1873): synonym of ''
Vertigo bisulcata
Vertigo is a condition where a person has the sensation of movement or of surrounding objects moving when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. This may be associated with nausea, vomiting, sweating, or difficulties w ...
''
(Jickeli, 1873) (junior synonym)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23703860
Vertiginidae
Gastropod genera
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