Bulimulus Explained

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.^{[1] [2]}

Bulimulus is the type genus of the subfamily Bulimulinae. The shells are high and conical, and are medium-sized, ranging from about long.

Species

Species in the genus Bulimulus include:^{[3] [4] [5]}

• Bulimulus acholus Mabille, 1895;
• Bulimulus albus (G. B. Sowerby, 1839)
• Bulimulus angustus Weyrauch, 1966
• Bulimulus apodemetes (d'Orbigny, 1835)
• Bulimulus aurismalchi (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Bulimulus bonariensis (Rafinesque, 1833)
• Bulimulus bouvieri Dautzenberg, 1897
• Bulimulus brunoi (Ihering, 1917)
• Bulimulus buenavistensis Pilsbry, 1897
• Bulimulus cacotycus Mabille, 1895
• Bulimulus cacticolus (Reeve, 1849)
• Bulimulus carmen Pilsbry & H.N. Lowe, 1932
• Bulimulus castelneaui (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
• Bulimulus catlowae (Pfeiffer, 1847)
• Bulimulus coriaceus (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
• Bulimulus corderoi (Parodiz, 1962)
• Bulimulus corneus (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
• Bulimulus corumbaensis (Pilsbry, 1857)
• Bulimulus cuernavacensis Crosse & P. Fischer, 1874 (uncertain species)
  • Bulimulus dealbatus var. jonesi Clench, 1937
  • Bulimulus dealbatus neomexicanus Pilsbry, 1946
  • Bulimulus dealbatus ozarkensis Pilsbry & Ferris, 1906
  • Bulimulus dealbatus ragsdalei (Pilsbry, 1890)
• Bulimulus diaphanus^[6]
  • Bulimulus diaphanus fraterculus (Potiez & Michaud, 1835)^[6]
• Bulimulus dismenicus Mabille, 1895;
• Bulimulus dukenfieldi Melvill, 1900
• Bulimulus dysoni (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
• Bulimulus eganus (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
• Bulimulus elatior Hylton Scott, 1952
• Bulimulus erectus (Reeve, 1849)
• Bulimulus fazendicus Maury, 1935 - Paleocene fossil^[7]
• Bulimulus felipponei Marshall, 1930
• Bulimulus fourmiersi (d'Orbigny, 1835)
• Bulimulus fraterculus (A. Férussac, 1821)
• Bulimulus frenguellii (Cabrera et al., 2021)^[8]
• Bulimulus fuscus Guilding, 1828
• Bulimulus gittenbergeri Breure, 1974
• Bulimulus glandiniformis G. B. Sowerby III, 1892
• Bulimulus gorritiensis Pilsbry, 1897
• Bulimulus gracilis Hylton Scott, 1948
• Bulimulus guadalupensis (Bruguière, 1789)^[6]
  • Bulimulus guadalupensis shadowei (Herrera, 2020)
• Bulimulus hamiltoni (Reeve, 1849)
• Bulimulus haplochrous (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
• Bulimulus hummelincki (Breure, 1974)
• Bulimulus inermis (Morelet, 1851)
• Bulimulus inutilis (Reeve, 1850)
• Bulimulus irregularis (Pfeiffer, 1847)
• Bulimulus juvenilis (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
• Bulimulus klappenbachi (Parodiz, 1969)
• Bulimulus krebsianus Pilsbry, 1897
• Bulimulus lehmanni (L. Pfeiffer, 1865)
• Bulimulus lherminieri (P. Fischer, 1857)
• Bulimulus limnoides (Férussac, 1832)^[6]
• Bulimulus marcidus (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
• Bulimulus mollicellus (Reeve, 1849)
• Bulimulus mooreanus L. Pfeiffer, 1868
• Bulimulus nigromontanus Dall, 1897
• Bulimulus ouallensis Breure & Hovestadt, 2016
• Bulimulus ovulum (Reeve, 1844)
• Bulimulus pasonis Pilsbry, 1902
• Bulimulus pervius (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
• Bulimulus pliculatus (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
• Bulimulus pliculosus (Ancey, 1901) (taxon inquirendum)
• Bulimulus prosopidis Holmberg, 1912
• Bulimulus pubescens (Moricand, 1836)
• Bulimulus quitensis (Pfeiffer, 1847)
• Bulimulus prosopidis Holmberg, 1912
• Bulimulus recognitus Mabille, 1895
• Bulimulus regina (T.E. Bowdich ex A.E.J. Férussac, 1822)
• Bulimulus rushii (Pilsbry, 1896)
• Bulimulus sanmarcosensis Pilsbry & H.N. Lowe, 1932
• Bulimulus sarcodes (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
• Bulimulus schadei Schlesch, 1935
• Bulimulus schiedeanus (Pfeiffer, 1841)
  • Bulimulus schiedeanus pecosensis Pilsbry & Ferris 1906
• Bulimulus sepulchralis Poey, 1852^[9]
• Bulimulus slevini Hanna, 1923^[10]
• Bulimulus subspirifer Mabille, 1895
• Bulimulus sula Simone & Amaral, 2018
• Bulimulus tenuissimus (Orbigny, 1835)
• Bulimulus transparens (Reeve, 1849)
• Bulimulus trindadeae Ferreira & Coelho, 1971 - Paleocene fossil^[7]
• Bulimulus turritellatus Beck, 1837
• Bulimulus turritus (Broderip, 1832)
• Bulimulus unicolor (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
• Bulimulus uniplicatus (Férussac, 1827)
• Bulimulus versicolor (Jan, 1832)
• Bulimulus vesicalis (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
  • Bulimulus vesicalis uruguayanus (Pilsbry, 1897)
• Bulimulus wiebesi Breure, 1974

Undescribed species:

• Bulimulus sp. nov. 'josevillani'
• Bulimulus sp. nov. 'krameri'
• Bulimulus sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri'
• Bulimulus sp. nov. 'tuideroyi'
• Bulimulus sp. nov. 'vanmoli'

Synonyms:

• Bulimulus dealbatus (Say, 1821): synonym of Rabdotus dealbatus (Say, 1821)
• Bulimulus inconspicuus Haas, 1949:^[11] synonym of Drymaeus inconspicuus (Haas, 1949) (original combination)
• Bulimulus pilsbryi Ferris 1925: synonym of Rabdotus pilsbryi (Ferriss, 1925)
• Bulimulus sporadicus (Orbigny, 1835): synonym of Bulimulus bonariensis (Rafinesque, 1833)
• Bulimulus trindadensis Breure & Coelho, 1976 is a synonym for Vegrandinia trindadensis (Breure & Coelho, 1976) within Subulinidae.^[12]

External links

• tree snails of Florida, Bulimulus spp. on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
• Breure . A. S. H. . Caribbean Land Molluscs: Bulimulidae I. Bulimulus . Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands . 1 January 1974 . 45 . 1 . 1–80 .

Notes and References

1. 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)". 141 (1): 1-20.
2. 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. Abbott R. T. (1989). Compendium of Landshells. American Malacologists, Inc: Melbourne FL. 240 pp.
4. Book: Pilsbry . Henry Augustus . Land Mollusca of North America: (north of Mexico) . 1939 . Academy of Natural Sciences . 978-1-4223-1778-5 .
5. http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
6. Robinson . D G . Hovestadt . A . Fields . A . Breure . A S H . The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species . Zoologische Mededelingen . 83 . July 2009 . 615–650 . . 10.1.1.732.9383 .
7. Salvador . Rodrigo Brincalepe . Simone . Luiz Ricardo Lopes de . Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil . Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia . São Paulo . 2013 . 10.1590/S0031-10492013000200001 . free .
8. Cabrera . F. . Breure . A. S. H. . Norbis . W. . Martínez . S. . Description of a new Late Cretaceous species of Bulimulus Leach, 1814 (Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae) using geometric morphometric analysis . 2021 . . 87 . 2 . eyab006 . 10.1093/mollus/eyab006 .
9. http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm "Mollusca"
10. G. Dallas. Hanna.

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    . 1923. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921. Land and freshwater mollusks. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 4. 12. 17. 483–528.
11. Breure . A S H . Avila . V Mogollón . Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) . Zoologische Mededelingen . 84 . November 2010 . 15–35 . . 10.1.1.733.1097 . 83102022 .
12. Salvador . R.B. . Cunha . C.M. . Simone . L.R.L. . Taxonomic revision of the orthalicid land snails (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora) from Trindade Island, Brazil . Journal of Natural History . April 2013 . 47 . 13–14 . 949–961 . 10.1080/00222933.2012.759290 . 84228003 .