''Pupisoma dioscoricola'' is a species of

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belonging to the family

Valloniidae Valloniidae is a taxonomic family of small and minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Valloniidae Morse, 1864. Accessed through: Worl ...

. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pupisoma dioscoricola (C. B. Adams, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1063783 on 2022-03-07 :Subspecies: * ''Pupisoma dioscoricola dioscoricola'' (C. B. Adams, 1845) * ''Pupisoma dioscoricola insigne'' Pilsbry, 1920

Distribution

The species has almost cosmopolitan distribution. This species occurs in the United States of America (Florida and Texas) to south Brazil and north Argentina. Some of this distribution could be anthropogenic (Hausdsdorf 2007). It is also found in

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, but one broken specimen was found in

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in 1979.

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s are temperate

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s and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by

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References

* Schalie, H. van der. (1948). The land and fresh-water mollusks of Puerto Rico. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Miscellaneous Publications. no. 70: 1-134. (Ann Arbor). * Holyoak, D. T.; Holyoak, G. A.; Lima, R. F. D.; Panisi, M.; Sinclair, F. (2020). A checklist of the land Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, with new records and descriptions of new taxa. Iberus: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología, (Iberus).38(2): 219-319. * Fischer-Piette, E., C. P. Blanc, F. Blanc, & F. Salvat (1994). Gastéropodes terrestres pulmonés. Faune de Madagascar, 83: 1-552.

External links

Adams, C. B. (1845). Specierum novarum conchyliorum, in Jamaica repertorum, synopsis. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 1-17.

Morelet, A. (1851). Testacea novissima insulae Cubanae et Americae Centralis, Pars II. Paris: Baillière. 30 pp.

Guppy, R. J. L. (1868). Further additions to the catalogue of the land and freshwater Molluska of Trinidad. Proceedings of the Scientific Association of Trinidad. 1(5):237-245

Benson, W. H. (1850). Characters of new species of Helix from India, Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope; also of a new Mauritian Tornatellina, with remarks on the habits of a Cape Succinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (2) 6: 251–256

Mollendorff, O. F. von. (1888). Von den Philippinen. V. Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 20 (7/8): 97 - 109

Miquel, S. E.; Herrera, H. W. (2014). Catalogue of terrestrial gastropods from Galápagos (except Bulimulidae and Succineidae) with description of a new species of Ambrosiella Odhner (Achatinellidae) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 143(2): 107-133

Espinosa, J. A. & Robinson, D. G. (2021). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Hispaniola Island. Novitates Caribaea. 17: 71–146

Hausdorf, B. (2007). Revision of the American Pupisoma species (Gastropoda: Pupilloidea). Journal of Natural History. 41(21-24): 1481-1511.
Valloniidae Gastropods described in 1845 {{Valloniidae-stub