Pupilla blandii
A shell of Pupilla blandi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Pupillidae
Genus:	Pupilla
Species:	P. blandii
Binomial name
Pupilla blandii E. S. Morse, 1865
Synonyms[1]
Pupa blandii (Morse, 1865) Pupa blandii f. obtusa Cockerell, 1892 Pupa blandii var. edentata Squyer, 1894 Pupa sublubrica Ancey, 1881 Pupilla blandi subsp. charlestonensis Pilsbry, 1921 Pupilla blandi var. alba Cockerell, 1888 Pupilla muscorum subsp. xerobia Pilsbry, 1914

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.