Bulimulidae | |
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Specimen of Drymaeus poecilus crawling over a piece of tree bark at El Impenetrable National Park of Chaco Province, Argentina | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
Family: | Bulimulidae Tryon, 1867 |
Genera | |
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Diversity[1] | |
1243 species (including Simpulopsidae and Bothriembryon). |
Bulimulidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.[2]
Breure 2010
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).