Solatopupa | |
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A live but retracted individual of Solatopupa juliana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Infraorder: | Pupilloidei |
Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
Family: | Chondrinidae |
Genus: | Solatopupa Pilsbry, 1917[1] |
Type species | |
Bulimus similis Bruguière, 1792 | |
Synonyms | |
Chondrina (Solatopupa) Pilsbry, 1917 |
Solatopupa is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Granariinae of the family Chondrinidae.[2]
The distribution the genus Solatopupa is peri-Tyrrhenian,[3] i.e. around the Tyrrhenian Sea (the part of the Mediterranean Sea that is between Italy, Sicily and Sardinia.
There are six species in the genus Solatopupa: