Afripupa

Afripupa is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Nesopupinae of the family Vertiginidae.[1]

Afripupa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Pupilloidei
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Vertiginidae
Genus: Afripupa
Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920
Type species
Pupa (Vertigo) tantilla A. Gould, 1847

Taxonomy

This genus has become a synonym of Vertigo (Staurodon) R. T. Lowe, 1852 represented as Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773. Afripupa has been formerly assigned to the Nesopupinae. The recent molecular phylogeny of the Vertiginidae by Nekola & Coles (2016) suggests a close relationship of Afripupa with Vertigo instead.[2]

Species
  • † Afripupa blumi (O. Boettger, 1884)
  • Afripupa densestriata (Adam, 1954)
  • Afripupa kanongae (Adam, 1954)
  • † Afripupa kenyensis Pickford, 2019
  • Afripupa misaliensis Gittenberger & van Bruggen, 2013
  • Afripupa pelengeae (Adam, 1954)
  • Afripupa rodriguezensis (Connolly, 1925)
  • Afripupa vengoensis (Connolly, 1925)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Afripupa bisulcata (Jickeli, 1873): synonym of Vertigo bisulcata (Jickeli, 1873)
  • Afripupa farquhari (Pilsbry, 1917): synonym of Vertigo farquhari Pilsbry, 1917 (superseded combination)
  • Afripupa griqualandica (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893): synonym of Vertigo griqualandica (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893) (superseded combination)
  • Afripupa iota (Preston, 1911): synonym of Afripupa bisulcata (Jickeli, 1873): synonym of Vertigo bisulcata (Jickeli, 1873) (junior synonym)

References
  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Afripupa Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine * At: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934433 on 2021-09-30
  2. Nekola, J.C.; Chiba, S.; Coles, B.F.; Drost, C.A.; Proschwitz, T. von; Horsák, M. (2018). A phylogenetic overview of the genus Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupillidae: Vertigininae). Malacologia. 62(1): 21–161.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
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