Megalobulimus albus

Megalobulimus albus
Shell of Megalobulimus albus (specimen at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Strophocheilidae
Genus:	Megalobulimus
Species:	M. albus
Binomial name
Megalobulimus albus (Bland & W. G. Binney, 1872)
Synonyms [1]
Bulimus oblongus var. albolabiataE. A. Smith, 1895 Bulimus oblongus var. albusBland & W. G. Binney, 1872 (basionym) Megalobulimus oblongus var. tobagoensis(Pilsbry, 1895) Strophocheilus (Megalobulimus) oblongus albus(Bland & W. G. Binney, 1872) Strophocheilus oblongus var. tobagoensisPilsbry, 1895

Megalobulimus albus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Strophocheilidae. ^[2]

Description

The shell is as large as Megalobulimus oblongus (O. F. Müller, 1774) but is pure white, with a rose-pink lip. ^[3]

Distribution

The species is endemic to Brazil. ^{[1] [4]}

References

1. "MolluscaBase - Megalobulimus albus (Bland & W. G. Binney, 1872)". www. molluscabase.org. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
2. Megalobulimus albus(Bland & W. G. Binney, 1872) . 17 July 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
3. Smith, E.A. (1895). "Note on the variation and distribution of Bulimus oblongus, Müll". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1: 137. Retrieved 17 July 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
4. Bequaert, Joseph C. (1948). "Monograph of the Strophocheilidae, a Neotropical Family of Terrestrial Mollusks". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 100 (1): 59–60.

• Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. Editora Gráfica Bernardi, FAPESP. São Paulo, 390 pp.

External links

• Pilsbry, H.A. (1895–1896). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 10: American Bulimi and Bulimuli. Streptocheilus, Plekocheilus, Auris, Bulimulus. Philadelphia: Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences. p. 30. Retrieved 17 July 2025.