Galapagos Species Database
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Pupisoma dioscoricola
Description (shell): Shell globose, conic, with obtuse apex, whorls strongly convex; perforate, cinnamon-colored, glossy; sculpture of unequal growth-wrinkles crossed by fine, impressed spiral lines about equally distinct over the whole last whorl; earlier whorls with granulate striae or somewhat irregular granulation, partly confluent into striae; the tip of the apex is slightly depressed; aperture truncate-rounded, oblique; peristome thin, the columellar margin whitish, dilated triangularly and broadly over the perforation; columella concave; 1.55 × 1.55 mm (Pilsbry 1948).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Stylommatophora
Superfamily
Pupilloidea
Family
Vertiginidae
Genus
Pupisoma
Species
dioscoricola
Taxon category: Accepted
Subgenus: (Ptychopatula)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Jamaica (type locality), United States (Florida and Texas), from the Caribbean to southern Brazil and northern Argentina, some records probably anthropogenic (Hausdorf 2007); Galapagos: Fernandina, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Floreana (agricultural areas), Isabela (endemic Guava forest on Alcedo) and Santa Cruz (disturbed sites in the National Park) (Miquel & Herrera 2014).
- Hausdorf, B. (2007) Revision of the American Pupisoma species (Gastropoda: Pupilloidea) Journal of Natural History 41 (21-24): 1481-1511
- Miquel, S.E. Herrera, W.H. (2014) Catalogue of terrestrial gastropods from Galapagos (exept Bulimulidae and Succineidae) with description of a new species of Ambrosiella odhner (Achatinellidae) Molluskenfunde 143 (2) 107-133
- Miquel, S.E. Bungartz, F. (2017) Snails found among herbarium specimens of Galapagos lichens and bryophytes, with the description of Scolodonta rinae (Gastropoda, Scolodontidae), a new species of carnivorous micro-mollusk Archiv für Molluskenkunde (in press).
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pupisoma dioscoricola", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15566. Accessed 10 June 2026.