Signepupina

Signepupina worsfoldi, copyright Femorale.

Belongs within: Cyclophoroidea.

Signepupina is a genus of small operculate snails with a smooth, glossy shell found in northeastern Australia (Stanisic et al. 2010).

Characters (from Stanisic et al. 2010): Shell very small to small in size (up to 12 mm in height); highly polished and glassy, generally pupiform in shape but turbinate as juveniles; whorls rounded to flat in adults, angulate in juveniles, sutures weakly impressed to flat; imperforate as adults but juveniles generally possess a narrow umbilicus; aperture circular in shape, lip thickened and reflected; anterior and posterior breathing canals present, often with accompanying ridges and flanges (auricles) and in some cases considerably elaborated; operculum circular, corneous, thin and multispiral. Colour varies from creamy white to bright yellow, and pale pink to reddish brown.

<==Signepupina Iredale 1937 (see below for synonymy) SS10
    |--S. meridionalis (Pfeiffer 1864) (see below for synonymy) SS10
    |--S. attenuata Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--S. babinda Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--S. bilinguis (Pfeiffer 1851) SS10
    |--S. coxeni (Brazier 1875) SS10
    |--S. crossei (Brazier 1876) SS10
    |--S. davidsoni Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--S. dunkensis Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--S. glenugie Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--S. masoni Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--S. pfeifferi (Dohrn 1862) [incl. Pupina carlottae Cox 1864] SS10
    |--S. pineticola (Cox 1866) [incl. Pupina pineticola modesta Fulton 1906] SS10
    |--S. robusta (Cox 1868) SS10
    |--S. rubiflava Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--S. strangei (Pfeiffer 1854) SS10
    |--S. tenuis (Hedley 1912) SS10
    |--S. thomsoni (Forbes 1851) [incl. Pupina bidentata Beddome 1897] SS10
    |--S. ventrosa (Dohrn 1862) [incl. Pupina nitida Brazier 1876] SS10
    |--S. wilcoxi (Cox 1864) [incl. Dolopupina wilcoxi edna Iredale 1940] SS10
    |--S. worsfoldi Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    `--S. yaamba Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10

Signepupina Iredale 1937 [incl. Diplopupina Iredale 1937, Dolopupina Iredale 1937, Lopupina Iredale 1937, Parapupina Iredale 1937] SS10

Signepupina meridionalis (Pfeiffer 1864) [incl. Pupina clara Fulton 1906, Pupinella macgillivrayi Cox 1864, *Signepupina macgillivrayi] SS10

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[SS10] Stanisic, J., M. Shea, D. Potter & O. Griffiths. 2010. Australian Land Snails vol. 1. A. field guide to eastern Australian species. Bioculture Press: Mauritius.