Bulimulus

Bulimulus
Bulimulus limnoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bulimulidae
Subfamily: Bulimulinae
Genus: Bulimulus
Leach, 1814[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • 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
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.[3][2]

Bulimulus is the type genus of the subfamily Bulimulinae.[4] The shells are high and conical, and are medium-sized, ranging from about 20 to 50 mm (1 to 2 in) long.

  1. ^ Leach W. E. (1814). Zool. Miscell. 1: 41.
  2. ^ a b 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
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ 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.