Pupillidae

Pupillidae
Temporal range:
A right side view of a live Pupilla muscorum
Six shells of Pupilla muscorum. The scale bar is in mm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Pupilloidei
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Pupillidae
Turton, 1831
Synonyms
  • Pupinae Flemming, 1828 (inv.)
  • Pupoididae Iredale, 1939

Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.

This family has two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).: Pupillinae W. Turton, 1831 and Pupoidinae Iredale, 1940.