Bulimulidae | |
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Specimen of Drymaeus poecilus crawling over a piece of tree bark at El Impenetrable National Park of Chaco Province, Argentina | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
Family: | Bulimulidae Tryon, 1867 |
Genera | |
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Diversity [1] | |
1243 species (including Simpulopsidae and Bothriembryon). |
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. [2]
Distribution of species in the family Bulimulidae includes Ecuador (9 genera) [3] and other South American countries. Some species also occur in North America.
The family's oldest fossil record dates from the late Cretaceous of Brazil (Itaboraí Basin). [4] [5]
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]
Previously, the members of the Orthalicidae were also included in this family, as the subfamily Orthalicinae, and the taxa listed here were placed in their own subfamily, the Bulimulinae. [8]
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]
Breure et al. (2010) [1] moved Bothriembryon to Placostylidae (since 2012 as Bothriembryontidae), elevated Bulimulinae to Bulimulidae and Odontostomini to Odontostomidae. [1]
Breure & Romero (2012) [10] confirmed previous results from 2010, additionally they elevated Simpulopsini to Simpulopsidae. [10] There are three subfamilies within Bulimulidae: [10]
Genera in the family Bulimulidae include:
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