Pupilla blandii

Pupilla blandii
File:Pupilla blandi shell.jpg
A shell of Pupilla blandi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Pupillidae
Genus:	Pupilla
Species:	P. blandii
Binomial name
Pupilla blandii E. S. Morse, 1865
Synonyms
Pupilla muscorum subsp. xerobia Pupa sublubrica Pupa blandii (Morse, 1865) Cockerell, 1892 Ancey, 1881 Pupilla blandi subsp. charlestonensis Pupa blandii var. edentata Pilsbry, 1921 Pilsbry, 1914 Pupa blandii f. obtusa Squyer, 1894 Cockerell, 1888 Pupilla blandi var. alba

Pupilla blandii, common name the Rocky Mountain column, is a species of very small or minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pupillidae.

Distribution

This common species occurs in the United States.

References

• Cockerell, T.D.A. (1888). Mollusca in Colorado. Hardwicke's Science Gossip, 24: 257
• InvertEBase. (2018). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase (InvertEBase.org) project

External links

• Radiocarbon Dating of Gastropod Shells - article with another drawing of the species
• Morse, E. S. (1865). Descriptions of new species of Pupadae. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 8: 207-212
• Ancey, C. F. (1881). Description de coquilles nouvelles. Le Naturaliste. 3 (49): 389-390. Paris
• Pilsbry, H. A. (1914). Shells of Duran, New Mexico. The Nautilus. 28(4): 37-38, plate 2
• Pilsbry, H. A. (1920-1921). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 26: Pupillidae (Vertigininae, Pupillinae). pp i-iv, 1-254, pls 1-24. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences
• Squyer, H. (1894). List of shells from the vicinity of Mingusville, Montana. The Nautilus, 8(6): 63-65
• Cockerell, T. D. A. (1892). New varieties of American Mollusca. Journal of Conchology. 7: 39.