Bulimulidae
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 Bulimulus alternatus mariae [1]
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Bulimulidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. The members of the Orthalicidae are sometimes included in this family, as the subfamily Orthalicinae, while placing the taxa listed here in the their own subfamily, the Bulimulinae. [2]
[edit] Genera
- Auris
- Bostryx
- Bulimulus
- Cochlorina
- Diplomorpha
- Drymaeus
- Dryptus
- Eudolichotis
- Naesiotus
- Neopetraeus
- Newboldius
- Otostomus
- Oxychona
- Placostylus
- Plectostylus
- Plekocheilus
- Rabdotus
- Scatulus
- Tasmanembryon
- Thaumastus
- Xenothauma [3] [4]
[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.
- ^ Pilsbry, H. A., 1946. Land mollusca of North America north of Mexico. vol. II part 1. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. pp. 1-520.
- ^ Abbott, R. Tucker, 1989. Compendium of Landshells. American Malacologists, Inc: Melbourne FL. 240 pp. ISBN 0-915826-23-2.
- ^ Powell, A. W. B., 1979. New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand. ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
