Bulimulidae
Specimen of Drymaeus poecilus crawling over a piece of tree bark at El Impenetrable National Park of Chaco Province, Argentina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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Distribution of species in the family Bulimulidae includes Ecuador (9 genera)[3] and other South American countries. Some species also occur in North America.

Fossil record

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The family's oldest fossil record dates from the late Cretaceous of Brazil (Itaboraí Basin).[4][5]

Anatomy

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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

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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]

2005 taxonomy

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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]

2010 taxonomy

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Breure et al. (2010)[1] moved Bothriembryon to Placostylidae (since 2012 as Bothriembryontidae), elevated Bulimulinae to Bulimulidae and Odontostomini to Odontostomidae.[1]

2012 taxonomy

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Breure & Romero (2012)[10] confirmed previous results from 2010, additionally they elevated Simpulopsini to Simpulopsidae.[10] There are three subfamilies within Bulimulidae:[10]

Genera

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Genera in the family Bulimulidae include:

subfamily Bulimulinae Tryon, 1887
(synonym: Berendtiinae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1872)
subfamily Peltellinae
subfamily Bostrycinae
Unassigned within Bulimulidae

Synonyms

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References

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

  1. ^ a b c Breure, A. S. H.; Groenenberg, D. S. J.; Schilthuizen, M. (1 January 2010). "New insights in the phylogenetic relations within the Orthalicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) based on 28S sequence data". Basteria. 74 (1/3): 25–31.
  2. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bulimulidae Tryon, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=549409 on 2020-06-27
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Breure, Abraham S. H.; Borrero, Francisco J. (14 May 2008). "An annotated checklist of the land snail family Orthalicidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea) in Ecuador, with notes on the distribution of the mainland species". Zootaxa. 1768 (1): 1–40. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1768.1.1. S2CID 85664015.
  4. ^ a b Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes de (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. São Paulo. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492013000200001.
  5. ^ Cabrera, Fernanda (April 9, 2021). "Description of a new Late Cretaceous species of Bulimulus". Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  6. ^ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142. Cited as Bulimulidae in the source.
  7. ^ a b c Breure, Abraham (21 August 2012). "The status of the genus Bostryx Troschel, 1847, with description of a new subfamily (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bulimulidae)". ZooKeys (216): 1–3. Bibcode:2012ZooK..216....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.216.3646. PMC 3426890. PMID 22936873.
  8. ^ Pilsbry, Henry Augustus (1939). Land Mollusca of North America: (north of Mexico). Academy of Natural Sciences. ISBN 978-1-4223-1778-5.[page needed]
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  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Breure, Abraham S.H.; Romero, Pedro E. (1 June 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. S2CID 87138471.
  11. ^ Salvador, Rodrigo B.; Simone, Luiz Ricardo L. (2016). "A new species of Kora from Bahia, Brazil (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea), with an emended diagnosis of the genus". Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History. 9 (1): 1–7. doi:10.18476/sbna.v9.a1. S2CID 86906091.
  12. ^ Breure, A. S. H. (1 January 1975). "Caribbean land molluscs: Bulimulidae II. Plekocheilus and Naesiotus". Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands. 46 (1): 71–93.
  13. ^ a b c Ardila, Mónica Lucía Vera (1 June 2008). "Lista de los géneros de moluscos terrestres de Colombia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda y Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Biota Colombiana. 9 (1).
  14. ^ a b c Breure, Abraham (31 May 2011). "Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Royal Belgian Institute of Sciences, Brussels, with descriptions of two new species". ZooKeys (101): 1–50. Bibcode:2011ZooK..101....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.101.1133. PMC 3118702. PMID 21747669.
  15. ^ Breure, A. S. H. (1 January 1979). "Systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of Bulimulinae (Mollusca)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 168 (1): 3–200.
  16. ^ a b Salvador, Rodrigo B.; Silva, Fernanda S.; Cavallari, Daniel C.; Köhler, Frank; Slapcinsky, John; Breure, Abraham S. H. (2023-07-26). "Molecular phylogeny of the Orthalicoidea land snails: Further support and surprises". PLOS ONE. 18 (7): e0288533. Bibcode:2023PLoSO..1888533S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0288533. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 10370776. PMID 37494326.
  17. ^ Abbott, R. Tucker, 1989. Compendium of Landshells. American Malacologists, Inc: Melbourne FL. 240 pp. ISBN 0-915826-23-2.
  18. ^ Powell, A. W. B., 1979. New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand. ISBN 0-00-216906-1.

Further reading

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