Pupoides
Encyclopedia
Pupoides is a genus
of land snail
s, terrestrial
gastropod mollusks in the family Pupillidae
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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 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...
gastropod mollusks in the family Pupillidae
Pupillidae
Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Stylommatophora....
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Species
Species within the genus Pupoides include:- Pupoides albilabris (C. B. Adams, 1841) - white-lip dagger
- 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.
- Pupoides modicus (Gould, 1848) - island dagger