Scutalus

Scutalus
A live individual of Scutalus mariopenai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Bulimulidae
Genus:	Scutalus Albers, 1850 [1]
Type species
Bulinus proteusBroderip, 1832
Synonyms
Buliminus (Scutalus)Albers, 1850· accepted, alternate representation Bulimulus (Scutalus)Albers, 1850 Bulimus (Scutalus)Albers, 1850 (original rank) Scutalus (Scutalus)Albers, 1850· accepted, alternate representation SpiroscutalusPilsbry, 1932 XenothaumaFulton, 1896

Scutalus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae. ^[2]

Previously this genus was placed within the subfamily Bulimulinae. ^[3]

Shells of Scutalus sp. on a Moche pot, 200 AD. Larco Museum Collection, Lima, Peru.

Species

Species in the genus Scutalus include:

• Scutalus baroni (Fulton, 1896)
• Scutalus broggii (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1949)
• Scutalus chango Araya & Breure, 2017
• Scutalus chiletensis Weyrauch, 1967 ^[2]
• Scutalus coraeformis (Pilsbry, 1897)
• Scutalus cousini (Jousseaume, 1887)
• Scutalus cretaceus (Pfeiffer, 1855) ^[4] - images Archived 2013-01-31 at archive.today
• Scutalus grandiventris Weyrauch, 1960
• Scutalus latecolumellaris (Preston, 1909)
• Scutalus macedoi Weyrauch, 1967 ^[4]
• Scutalus mariopenai Breure & Mogollón Avilla, 2010 ^[4]
• Scutalus mutabilis (W.J. Broderip, 1832) (synonym: Bulinus mutabilis Broderip, 1832)
• Scutalus nivalis (d'Orbigny, 1835)
• Scutalus omissus Weyrauch, 1967
• Scutalus ortizpuentei Weyrauch, 1967 ^[4]
• Scutalus phaeocheilus (Haas, 1955) ^[4]
• Scutalus pilosus Weyrauch, 1967
• Scutalus prometheus (J.C.H. Crosse, 1869) (synonym: Bulimus prometheus J.C.H. Crosse, 1869)
• Scutalus proteiformis (Dohrn, 1863) ^[4]
• Scutalus proteus (W.J. Broderip, 1832) (synonym: Bulinus proteus Broderip, 1832) ^[5]
• Scutalus quechuarum (Crawford, 1939)
• Scutalus sanborni (Haas, 1947)
• Scutalus sordidus (Deshayes, 1838)
• Scutalus steerei (Pilsbry, 1900)
• Scutalus versicolor (Broderip, 1832) ^[6]

Species brought into synonymy

• Scutalus pluto(J.C.H. Crosse, 1869) (synonym: Bulimus plutoCrosse, 1869): synonym of Bocourtia pluto (Crosse, 1869)
• Scutalus revinctus(Hupé, 1857): synonym of Bulimus revinctus Hupé, 1857
• Scutalus tupacii(d'Orbigny, 1835): synonym of Bocourtia tupacii (d'Orbigny, 1835)
• Scutalus weddellii(Hupé, 1857) (synonym: Bulimus weddellii Hupé, 1857): synonym of Bocourtia weddellii (Hupé, 1857)

References

1. Albers J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers: 1-262. Berlin. page 160.
2. 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)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology 141(1): 1-20. doi : 10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020.
3. Breure A. S. H. (1979). "Systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of Bulimulinae (Mollusca)". Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 168: 1-215, figs 1-182, pls. 1-3, tables 1-5. PDF.
4. Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
5. "Taxonomy browser (Scutalus proteus)".
6. "Taxonomy browser (Scutalus versicolor)".

External links

• Media related to Scutalus at Wikimedia Commons