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Pupillaea

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Orthogastropoda
Superordo: Vetigastropoda
Superfamilia: Fissurelloidea
Familia: Fissurellidae
Subfamilia: Emarginulinae
Tribus: Fissurellideini
Genus: Pupillaea
Species: P. annulus

Name

Pupillaea G.B. Sowerby I, 1835

Type species: Fissurella aperta Sowerby, 1825, by Monotypy

Synonyms

* Pupillia J.E. Gray, 1840: 114, 147


References

* Sowerby, G.B. 1825. A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville. London. vii + 99 + xxxiv, 9 pls.
* McLean, J. M. 1984. Shell reduction and loss in fissurellids: a review of genera and species in the Fissurellidea group. American Malacological Bulletin 2: 21-34.

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