Bullia
Bullia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[2]
Species
The fiollowing subgenera are recognized:
- Bullia (Bullia) Gray, 1834
- Bullia (Cereobullia) Melvill & Peile, 1924
Species within the genus Bullia include:
- Bullia aikeni Kilburn, 1978
- Bullia ancillaeformis Smith, 1906
- Bullia annulata [3]
- Bullia belangeri Kiener[4]
- Bullia callosa Gray[5]
- Bullia cataphracta Kilburn, 1978
- Bullia cumingiana Dunker, 1852
- Bullia digitalis (Dillwyn, 1817) [6]
- Bullia diluta (Krauss, 1848) [7]
- Bullia granulosa (Lamarck, 1822)[8] - synonym: Bullia fusca Craven[9]
- Bullia gruveli (Dautzenberg, 1910)
- Bullia indusindica Melvill, 1898
- Bullia kurrachensis Angas, 1877
- Bullia laevissima [10]
- Bullia mauritiana Gray, 1839
- Bullia melanoides (Deshayes, 1832)
- Bullia miran (Bruguière, 1792)[11]
- Bullia mirepicta Bozzetti, 2007[12]
- Bullia mozambicensis Smith, 1878 [13]
- Bullia natalensis (Krauss, 1848).[14]
- Bullia nitida Sowerby, 1895
- Bullia nuttalli Kilburn, 1978
- Bullia osculata Sowerby, 1900
- Bullia othaeitensis (Bruguière, 1789)
- Bullia persica Smith, 1878
- Bullia pura Melvill, 1885 [15]
- Bullia rhodostoma Reeve, 1847 [16]
- Bullia rogersi Smythe & Chatfield, 1981
- Bullia sendersi Kilburn, 1978
- Bullia similis Sowerby, 1897
- Bullia skoogi (Odhner, 1923)
- Bullia tenuis Reeve, 1846
- Bullia terebraeformis Dautzenberg[17]
- Bullia townsendi Melvill, 1912
- Bullia tranquebarica (Röding, 1798)
- Bullia trifasciata Smith, 1904
- Bullia turrita Gray, 1839
- Bullia vittata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms:
- Bullia fuscus Gray in Dieffenbach, 1834 is a synonym of Impages hectica (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Bullia miran (Bruguière, 1789) is a synonym of Dorsanum miran (Bruguière, 1789)
- Bullia valida Dunker, 1852 is a synonym of Pusionella valida (Dunker, 1852)
References
Further reading
- Odhner, N.H. (1923) Contribution to the marine molluscan faunas of South and West Africa. Meddelanden fran Göteborgs Musei Zoologiska Avdelning, 23, 1–39, 1 pl. page(s): 15
- Abbott, R.T. & S.P. Dance (1986). Compendium of sea shells. American Malacologists, Inc:Melbourne, Florida
- Allmon W. D. (1990). "Review of the Bullia group (Gastropoda: Nassariidae) with comments on its evolution, biogeography, and phylogeny". Bulletins of American Paleontology 99(335): 179 pp., 15 pls.