''Solatopupa'' is a

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of air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

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s in the subfamily Granariinae of the family

Chondrinidae Chondrinidae is a family of mostly minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Pulmonata. Anatomy In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in ...

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Distribution

The distribution the genus ''Solatopupa'' is peri-Tyrrhenian,Ketmaier V., GiustiF. & Caccone A. (2006). "Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the land snail genus ''Solatopupa'' (Pulmonata) in the peri-Tyrrhenian area". ''

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'' 39(2): 439-451. . i.e. around the

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(the part of the

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that is between Italy,

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and

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Species

There are six species in the genus ''Solatopupa'': * '' Solatopupa cianensis'' (Caziot, 1910) * '' Solatopupa guidoni'' (Caziot, 1904) * '' Solatopupa juliana'' (Issel, 1866) * '' Solatopupa pallida'' (Rossmässler, 1842) * '' Solatopupa psarolena'' (Bourguignat, 1859) * '' Solatopupa similis'' (Bruguière, 1792)

References

* Gittenberger, E. (1973). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pupillacea. III. Chondrininae. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 127: 1–267, pl. 1–7. Leiden * Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017. Chondrinidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Chondrinidae-stub