''Pupoides'' is a
genus
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of
land snails,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
gastropod mollusk
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s in the family
Pupillidae
Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pupillidae W. Turton, 1831. Accessed through: ...
.
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. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
Species
Species within the genus ''Pupoides'' include:
* ''
Pupoides albilabris'' (C. B. Adams, 1841) - white-lip dagger
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ITIS
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, accessed 5 April 2011.
* ''
Pupoides coenopictus''
(Hutton, 1834)
* ''
Pupoides hordaceus'' (Gabb, 1866) - ribbed dagger
* ''
Pupoides inornatus'' Vanatta, 1915 - Rocky Mountain dagger
* ''
Pupoides marginatus''
** ''Pupoides marginatus nitidulus'' (Pfeiffer, 1839)
- this is the only member of the family Pupillidae in
Cuba
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.
* ''
Pupoides modicus'' (Gould, 1848) - island dagger
References
* Thompson F.G. (2011) ''An annotated checklist and bibliography of the land and freshwater snails of México and central America''. Florida Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 50(1): 1-299.
Pupillidae
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