Bulimulus

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Genus of gastropods

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::summary Genus of gastropods ::

| image = Bulimulus limnoides.png | image_caption = Bulimulus limnoides | taxon = Bulimulus |display_parents = 3 | authority = Leach, 1814 | synonyms =

  • Adzharia P. Hesse, 1933
  • Bulimulus (Bulimulus) Leach, 1814
  • Bulimus (Leptomerus) Albers, 1850
  • Cochlogena Férussac, 1821 (junior synonym)
  • Helix (Cochlogena) Férussac, 1821
  • Leptomerus Albers, 1850
  • Loboa Ihering, 1917
  • Siphalomphix Rafinesque, 1833 | synonyms_ref =

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Bulimulus_acholus_(MNHN-IM-2000-28005).jpeg" caption="''Bulimulus acholus'' Mabille, 1895 - lectotype at MNHN, Paris"] ::

** Bulimulus ** is a genus of small to medium-sized tropical or sub-tropical, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Bulimulinae within the family Bulimulidae.

Bulimulus is the type genus of the subfamily Bulimulinae. The shells are high and conical, and are medium-sized, ranging from about 20 to long.

Species

Species in the genus Bulimulus include:

;Undescribed species:

;Synonyms:

  • Bulimulus dealbatus (Say, 1821): synonym of Rabdotus dealbatus (Say, 1821)
  • Bulimulus inconspicuus Haas, 1949: synonym of Drymaeus inconspicuus (Haas, 1949) (original combination)
  • Bulimulus pilsbryi Ferris 1925: synonym of Rabdotus pilsbryi (Ferriss, 1925)
  • Bulimulus sporadicus (Orbigny, 1835): synonym of Bulimulus bonariensis (Rafinesque, 1833)
  • Bulimulus trindadensis Breure & Coelho, 1976 synonym of Vegrandinia trindadensis (Breure & Coelho, 1976) within Subulinidae.

References

References

  1. [[William Elford Leach. Leach W. E.]] (1814). ''Zool. Miscell.'' '''1''': 41.
  2. Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". ''[[Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology]]'' '''141''' (1): 1-20. {{doi. 10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020
  3. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. ''Bulimulus'' Leach, 1814. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=861633 on 2020-06-21
  4. {{Bouchet 2005
  5. Abbott R. T. (1989). ''Compendium of Landshells''. American Malacologists, Inc: Melbourne FL. 240 pp. {{ISBN. 0-915826-23-2
  6. (1939). "Land Mollusca of North America: (north of Mexico)". Academy of Natural Sciences.
  7. [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] {{webarchive. link. (June 27, 2014)
  8. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen.
  9. (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia.
  10. (2021). "Description of a new Late Cretaceous species of ''Bulimulus'' Leach, 1814 (Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae) using geometric morphometric analysis". [[Journal of Molluscan Studies]].
  11. [http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm "Mollusca"] {{webarchive. link. (July 18, 2011 . Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.)
  12. Hanna, G. Dallas. (1923). "Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921. Land and freshwater mollusks". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.
  13. (November 2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen.
  14. (April 2013). "Taxonomic revision of the orthalicid land snails (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora) from Trindade Island, Brazil". Journal of Natural History.

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