Bulimulus
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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Genus: | Bulimulus |
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.[2]
Bulimulus is the type genus of the subfamily Bulimulinae.[3]
Shell description
The shells are high and conical, and are medium-sized, ranging from about 20 mm (0.8 inches) to about 50 mm (2 inches) long.
Species
Species in the genus Bulimulus include:[5][6][7]
- Bulimulus achatellinus
- Bulimulus adelphus
- Bulimulus adserseni
- Bulimulus akamatus
- Bulimulus albermalensis
- Bulimulus alethorhytidus
- Bulimulus alternatus (Say, 1830)
- Bulimulus alternatus mariae (Albers, 1850)
- Bulimulus amastroides
- Bulimulus apodemetes (Orbigny, 1835)
- Bulimulus blombergi
- Bulimulus bonariensis (Orbigny, 1835)
- Bulimulus brunoi (Ihering, 1917)
- Bulimulus catlowae (Pfeiffer, 1847)
- Bulimulus calvus
- Bulimulus cavagnaroi
- Bulimulus chemitzioides
- Bulimulus cinerarius
- Bulimulus corderoi (Parodiz, 1962)
- Bulimulus corumbaensis (Pilsbry, 1857)
- Bulimulus cucullinus
- Bulimulus curtus
- Bulimulus darwini
- Bulimulus dealbatus (Say, 1821)
- Bulimulus dealbatus jonesi Clench, 1937
- Bulimulus dealbatus mooreanus (Pfeiffer)
- Bulimulus dealbatus neomexicanus Pilsbry, 1946
- Bulimulus dealbatus ozarkensis Pilsbry & Ferris, 1906
- Bulimulus dealbatus ragsdalei (Pilsbry, 1890)
- Bulimulus deridderi
- Bulimulus diaphanus[8]
- Bulimulus diaphanus fraterculus (Potiez & Michaud, 1835)[8]
- Bulimulus duncanus
- Bulimulus elaeodes
- Bulimulus eos
- Bulimulus eschariferus
- †Bulimulus fazendicus Maury, 1935 - Paleocene fossil[9]
- Bulimulus galapaganus
- Bulimulus guadalupensis (Bruguière, 1789)[8]
- Bulimulus habeli
- Bulimulus hamiltoni (Reeve, 1849)
- Bulimulus hemaerodes
- Bulimulus hisutus
- Bulimulus hoodensis
- Bulimulus hummelincki (Breure, 1974)
- Bulimulus inconspicuus Haas, 1949[10]
- Bulimulus indefatigabilis
- Bulimulus irregularis (Pfeiffer, 1847)
- Bulimulus jacobi
- Bulimulus jervisensis
- Bulimulus limnoides (Férussac, 1832)[8]
- Bulimulus lycodus
- Bulimulus nesioticus
- Bulimulus nigromontanus Dall, 1897
- Bulimulus nucula
- Bulimulus nux
- Bulimulus ochsneri
- Bulimulus olla
- Bulimulus ovulum (Reeve, 1844)
- Bulimulus pallidus
- Bulimulus perrus
- Bulimulus perspectivus
- Bulimulus planospira
- Bulimulus pasonis Pilsbry, 1902
- Bulimulus pilsbryi Ferris 1925
- Bulimulus pliculosus (Ancey, 1901)
- Bulimulus pubescens (Moricand, 1836)
- Bulimulus quitensis (Pfeiffer, 1847)
- Bulimulus rabidensis
- Bulimulus reibischi
- Bulimulus rugatinus
- Bulimulus rugiferus
- Bulimulus rugulosus
- Bulimulus rushii (Pilsbry, 1896)
- Bulimulus saeronius
- Bulimulus schiedeanus (Pfeiffer, 1841)
- Bulimulus schiedeanus pecosensis Pilsbry & Ferris 1906
- Bulimulus sculpturatus
- Bulimulus sepulchralis Poey, 1852[11]
- Bulimulus simrothi
- Bulimulus sporadicus (Orbigny, 1835)
- Bulimulus sporadicus sporadicus (Orbigny, 1835)
- Bulimulus sp. nov. 'josevillani'
- Bulimulus sp. nov. 'krameri'
- Bulimulus sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri'
- Bulimulus sp. nov. 'tuideroyi'
- Bulimulus sp. nov. 'vanmoli'
- Bulimulus tanneri
- Bulimulus tenuissimus (Orbigny, 1835)
- Bulimulus tortuganus
- Bulimulus transparens (Reeve, 1849)[10]
- †Bulimulus trindadeae Ferreira & Coelho, 1971 - Paleocene fossil[9]
- Bulimulus trogonius
- Bulimulus turritus (Broderip, 1832)
- Bulimulus turritellatus (Beck,1837)
- Bulimulus unifasciatus
- Bulimulus ustulatus
- Bulimulus vesicalis
- Bulimulus vesicalis uruguayanus (Pilsbry, 1897)
- Bulimulus wolfi
Synonyms:
- Bulimulus trindadensis Breure & Coelho, 1976 is a synonym for Vegrandinia trindadensis (Breure & Coelho, 1976) within Subulinidae.[12]
References
- ^ Leach W. E. (1814). Zool. Miscell. 1: 41.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ 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), 5.
- ^ Abbott R. T. (1989). Compendium of Landshells. American Malacologists, Inc: Melbourne FL. 240 pp. ISBN 0-915826-23-2.
- ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1946). "Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico)". Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 2(1): 1-520.
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
- ^ a b c d Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
- ^ a b Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L. Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53(2): 5-46. (http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0031-10492013000200001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en)
- ^ a b Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
- ^ "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
- ^ Salvador R. B., Cunha C. M. & Simone L. R. L. (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the orthalicid land snails (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora) from Trindade Island, Brazil". Journal of Natural History 47(13-14): 949-961. doi:10.1080/00222933.2012.759290
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bulimulus.
- tree snails of Florida, Bulimulus spp. on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
- Breure A. S. H. (1974). "Caribbean land molluscs: Bulimulidae, I. Bulimulus". Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 45: 1-80, figs. 1-80, pls 1-7, tables 1-17.