Pupisoma
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Pupisoma is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of minute, air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusk
Micromollusk
A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...

s in the family Valloniidae
Valloniidae
Valloniidae is a taxonomic family of small and minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.-Anatomy:...

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Pupisoma is placed within Valloniidae, because Pupisomatidae is a synonym of Valloniidae.

Species

Species within the genus Pupisoma include:
  • Pupisoma dioscoricola (C. B. Adams, 1845)
  • Pupisoma orcula
    Pupisoma orcula
    Pupisoma orcula is a species of minute, air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc or micromollusks in the family Valloniidae....

    (Benson, 1850)
  • Pupisoma sp. nov. 1
    Pupisoma sp. nov. 1
    Pupisoma sp. nov. 1 is a species of minute, air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Valloniidae. This species is endemic to Nicaragua....

     from Nicaragua

Further reading

  • Hausdorf B. (2007). "Revision of the American Pupisoma species (Gastropoda: Pupilloidea)". Journal of Natural History
    Journal of Natural History
    The Journal of Natural History is a scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis focusing on entomology and zoology. The journal was established in 1841 under the name Annals and Magazine of Natural History and obtained its current title in 1967...

    41(21-24): 1481–1511. doi:10.1080/00222930701401069.
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