Bulimulidae

Bulimulidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.[3]

Bulimulidae
Drawing of the shell of Bulimulus alternatus mariae[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Superorder:	Eupulmonata
Order:	Stylommatophora
Informal group:	Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Bulimulidae Tryon, 1867
Genera
See text
Diversity[2]
1243 species (including Simpulopsidae and Bothriembryon).

Distribution

Distribution of species in the family Bulimulidae includes Ecuador (9 genera)[4] and other South American countries.

Fossil record

The family's oldest fossil record dates from the Middle Paleocene of Brazil (Itaboraí Basin).[5]

Anatomy

Members of this family have a haploid chromosome number between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[6]

Shells of species within Bostrycinae have a smooth protoconch and the genital organs feature a relatively long penis sheath (ca. 1/4–1/6 total phallus length).[7]

Taxonomy

Previously, the members of the Orthalicidae were also included in this subfamily, as the subfamily Orthalicinae, and the taxa listed here were placed in their own subfamily, the Bulimulinae.[8]

2005 taxonomy

Bulimulinae was placed in the family Orthalicidae according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[9]

The subfamily Bulimulinae included 3 tribes:[9]

• Tribe Bulimulini Tryon, 1867 - synonyms: Bulimidae Guilding, 1828 (inv.); Berendtiinae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1872; Bothiembryontidae Iredale, 1937
• Tribe Odontostomini Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898 - synonym: Tomogeridae Jousseaume, 1877
• Tribe Simpulopsini Schileyko, 1999

2010 taxonomy

Breure et al. (2010)[10] moved Bothriembryon to Placostylidae (since 2012 as Bothriembryontidae), elevated Bulimulinae to Bulimulidae and Odontostomini to Odontostomidae.[10]

2012 taxonomy

Breure & Romero (2012)[11] confirmed previous results from 2010, additionally they elevated Simpulopsini to Simpulopsidae.[11] There are three subfamilies within Bulimulidae:[11]

• subfamily Bulimulinae Tryon, 1867
• subfamily Peltellinae Gray, 1855
• subfamily Bostrycinae Breure, 2012[11][7]

Genera

Genera in the family Bulimulidae include:

subfamily Bulimulinae Tryon, 1887

• Anctus E. von Martens, 1860
• Auris Spix, 1827
• Berendtia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1869
• Bocourtia Rochebrune, 1882
• Bostryx Troschel, 1847 sensu lato[4][11]
• Bulimulus Leach, 1814 - type genus of the subfamily Bulimulinae[9][4][11]
• Cochlorina Jan, 1830
• Graptostracus Pilsbry, 1939
• Kora Simone, 2012[12]
  • Kuschelenia[13]
  • subgenus Vermiculatus Breure 1978[13]
• Leiostracus Albers, 1850
• Llaucanianus Weyrauch, 1967
• Lopesianus Weyrauch, 1958
• Naesiotus Albers, 1850[14][15][4][11]
• Neopetraeus E. von Martens, 1885
• Newboldius Pilsbry, 1932
• Otostomus H. Beck, 1837
• Oxychona Mörch, 1852
• Protoglyptus Pilsbry, 1897[13]
• Pseudoxychona Pilsbry, 1930
• Rabdotus Albers, 1850[11]
• Scutalus Albers, 1850[16][4][11]
• Spartocentrum Dall, 1895
• Sphaeroconcha Breure, 1978
• Stenostylus Pilsbry, 1898[15][4][13]
• Suniellus Breure, 1978[13]

subfamily Peltellinae

• Drymaeus Albers, 1850[15][4][11]
• Peltella Gray, 1855 - type genus of the subfamily Peltellinae[11]

subfamily Bostrycinae

• Bostryx Troschel, 1847 sensu stricto - type genus of the subfamily Bostrycinae[11]

within Bulimulidae, subfamily ?

• Bulimus Bruguière, 1789 (temporary name)
• Itaborahia Maury, 1935 †
• Oreoconus D. W. Taylor in McKenna et al., 1962 †
• Palaeobulimulus Parodiz, 1949 †

unsorted, maybe within Bulimulidae (can be also either in Bulimulidae or Odontostomidae or in Simpulopsidae)

• Auris Spix, 1827[15]
• Cochlorina Jan, 1830
• †Cortana Salvador & Simone, 2013[5]
• Diplomorpha Ancey, 1884
• †Itaborahia Maury, 1935[5]
• Newboldius Pilsbry, 1932
• Otostomus Beck, 1837
• Oxychona Moerch, 1852
• Tasmanembryon Iredale, 1933
• Xenothauma Fulton 1896[17][18]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference[7]

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14. Breure A. S. H. (1975). "Caribbean land molluscs: Bulimulidae, II. Plekocheilus and Naesiotus". Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 46: 71-93, pls. 6-8, tables 8-14.
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Further reading

• (in German) Neubert E. & Janssen R. (2004). "Die Typen und Typoide des Natur-Museums Senckenberg, 84: Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae (2), Orthalicidae, Placostylidae". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 133: 193-297. abstract.
• Breure & Ablett, Annotated type catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London; ooKeys 392(392) · March 2014 

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