Solatopupa

Solatopupa
A live but retracted individual of Solatopupa juliana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Chondrinidae
Genus: Solatopupa
Pilsbry, 1917[1]

Solatopupa is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Chondrinidae.

Distribution

The distribution the genus Solatopupa is peri-Tyrrhenian,[2] i.e. around the Tyrrhenian Sea (the part of the Mediterranean Sea that is between Italy, Sicily and Sardinia.

Species

There are six species in the genus Solatopupa:

References

  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1916-1918). Manual of Conchology. Second Series: Pulmonata, 24. Pupillidae (Gastrocoptinae). pp. i-xii [= 1-12], 1-380, Plates 1-49. Philadelphia. page 234.
  2. Ketmaier V., GiustiF. & Caccone A. (2006). "Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the land snail genus Solatopupa (Pulmonata) in the peri-Tyrrhenian area". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39(2): 439-451. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.008.
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