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Bulimulus is a genus of small to medium-sized tropical or sub-tropical, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.
[edit] 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.
[edit] List of taxa in the genus Bulimulus
- 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)
[edit] 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
- ^ 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.
