Bulimulus

Taxobox
name = "Bulimulus"


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image_caption = "Bulimulus dealbatus" [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]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
subordo = Eupulmonata
familia = Bulimulidae
genus = "Bulimulus"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

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

hell 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.

List of taxa in the genus "Bulimulus"

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header = "Bulimulus" [Abbott, R. Tucker, 1989. "Compendium of Landshells". American Malacologists, Inc: Melbourne FL. 240 pp. ISBN 0-915826-23-2.] Pilsbry, Henry A. 1946. "Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico)". Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 2(1): 1-520.]
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*"Bulimulus alternatus" (Say, 1830)
**"Bulimulus alternatus mariae" (Albers, 1850)
*"Bulimulus apodemetes" (Orbigny, 1835)
*"Bulimulus bonariensis" (Orbigny, 1835)
*"Bulimulus brunoi" (Ihering, 1917)
*"Bulimulus catlowae" (Pfeiffer, 1847)
*"Bulimulus corderoi" (Parodiz, 1962)
*"Bulimulus corumbaensis" (Pilsbry, 1857)
*"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 guadalupensis" (Bruguiere, 1789)
*"Bulimulus hamiltoni" (Reeve, 1849)
*"Bulimulus hummelincki" (Breure, 1974)
*"Bulimulus irregularis" (Pfeiffer, 1847)
*"Bulimulus nigromontanus" Dall, 1897
*"Bulimulus ovulum" (Reeve, 1844)
*"Bulimulus pasonis" Pilsbry, 1902
*"Bulimulus pilsbryi" Ferris 1925
*"Bulimulus pliculosus" (Ancey, 1901)
*"Bulimulus pubescens" (Moricand, 1836)
*"Bulimulus quitensis" (Pfeiffer, 1847)
*"Bulimulus rushii" (Pilsbry, 1896)
*"Bulimulus schiedeanus" (Pfeiffer, 1841)
**"Bulimulus schiedeanus pecosensis" Pilsbry & Ferris 1906
*"Bulimulus sporadicus" (Orbigny, 1835)
**"Bulimulus sporadicus sporadicus" (Orbigny, 1835)
*"Bulimulus tenuissimus" (Orbigny, 1835)
*"Bulimulus trindadensis" (Bruere & Coelho, 1976)
*"Bulimulus turritus" (Broderip, 1832)
*"Bulimulus turritellatus" (Beck,1837)
*"Bulimulus vesicalis"
**"Bulimulus vesicalis uruguayanus" (Pilsbry, 1897)

References

External Links

* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/gastro/tree_snails.htm tree snails of Florida, "Bulimulus" spp.] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site