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The members of the [[Orthalicidae]] were included in this family before, as the subfamily Orthalicinae, while placing the taxa listed here in their own subfamily, the Bulimulinae.<ref>Pilsbry, H. A., 1946. ''Land mollusca of North America north of Mexico''. vol. II part 1. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. pp. 1-520.</ref> |
The members of the [[Orthalicidae]] were included in this family before, as the subfamily Orthalicinae, while placing the taxa listed here in their own subfamily, the Bulimulinae.<ref>Pilsbry, H. A., 1946. ''Land mollusca of North America north of Mexico''. vol. II part 1. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. pp. 1-520.</ref> |
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==Genera== |
==Genera in the subfamily Bulimulinae== |
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Gnenera in the subfamily Bulimulinae include: |
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* ''[[Auris (genus)|Auris]]'' |
* ''[[Auris (genus)|Auris]]'' |
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* ''[[Bostryx]]'' |
* ''[[Bostryx]]'' |
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Bulimulinae is a taxonomic subfamily of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Orthalicidae (according to taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)).
Anatomy
In this subfamily, the number of haploid chromosomes varies from 26 to 30 (according to the values in this table).[2]
Taxonomy
The members of the Orthalicidae were included in this family before, as the subfamily Orthalicinae, while placing the taxa listed here in their own subfamily, the Bulimulinae.[3]
Genera in the subfamily Bulimulinae
- Auris
- Bostryx
- Bulimulus
- Cochlorina
- Diplomorpha
- Drymaeus
- Dryptus
- Eudolichotis
- Naesiotus
- Neopetraeus
- Newboldius
- Otostomus
- Oxychona
- Placostylus
- Plectostylus
- Plekocheilus
- Rabdotus
- Scatulus
- Tasmanembryon
- Thaumastus
- Xenothauma[4][5]
References
- ^ Binney, W. G., 1878. The terrestrial shell-bearing mollusks of the United States and the adjacent territories of North America. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. (Harvard), vol. 5.
- ^ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142. Cited as Bulimulidae in the source.
- ^ Pilsbry, H. A., 1946. Land mollusca of North America north of Mexico. vol. II part 1. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. pp. 1-520.
- ^ Abbott, R. Tucker, 1989. Compendium of Landshells. American Malacologists, Inc: Melbourne FL. 240 pp. ISBN 0-915826-23-2.
- ^ Powell, A. W. B., 1979. New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand. ISBN 0-00-216906-1.