# Bulimulus

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{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Bulimulus limnoides.png
| image_caption = ''[Bulimulus limnoides](/source/Bulimulus_limnoides)''
| taxon = Bulimulus
|display_parents = 3
| authority = [Leach](/source/William_Elford_Leach), 1814<ref>[Leach W. E.](/source/William_Elford_Leach) (1814). ''Zool. Miscell.'' '''1''': 41.</ref>
| synonyms = 
* ''Adzharia'' <small>P. Hesse, 1933</small>
* ''Bulimulus'' (''Bulimulus'') <small>Leach, 1814</small>
* ''Bulimus'' (''Leptomerus'') <small>Albers, 1850</small>
* ''Cochlogena'' <small>Férussac, 1821</small> (junior synonym)
* ''Helix'' (''Cochlogena'') <small>Férussac, 1821</small>
* ''Leptomerus'' <small>Albers, 1850</small>
* ''Loboa'' <small>Ihering, 1917</small>
* ''Siphalomphix'' <small>Rafinesque, 1833</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" />
}}

thumb|''Bulimulus acholus'' <small>Mabille, 1895</small> - lectotype at MNHN, Paris

''' ''Bulimulus'' ''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of small to medium-sized [tropical](/source/tropical) or sub-tropical, air-breathing [land snail](/source/land_snail)s, [pulmonate](/source/pulmonate) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusk](/source/mollusk)s in the subfamily [Bulimulinae](/source/Bulimulinae) within the family [Bulimulidae](/source/Bulimulidae).<ref name="Breure 2012">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](/source/Archiv_f%C3%BCr_Molluskenkunde%3A_International_Journal_of_Malacology)'' '''141''' (1): 1-20. {{doi|10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020}}</ref><ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. ''Bulimulus'' Leach, 1814. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=861633 on 2020-06-21</ref>

''Bulimulus'' is the [type genus](/source/type_genus) of the subfamily Bulimulinae.<ref>{{Bouchet 2005}}</ref> The shells are high and conical, and are medium-sized, ranging from about {{cvt|20|to|50|mm|0}} long.

==Species==
Species in the genus ''Bulimulus'' include:<ref>Abbott R. T. (1989). ''Compendium of Landshells''. American Malacologists, Inc: Melbourne FL. 240 pp. {{ISBN|0-915826-23-2}}</ref><ref name="Pilsbry1946">{{cite book |last1=Pilsbry |first1=Henry Augustus |title=Land Mollusca of North America: (north of Mexico) |date=1939 |publisher=Academy of Natural Sciences |isbn=978-1-4223-1778-5 }}{{pn|date=December 2020}}</ref><ref>[http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627094911/http://www.iucnredlist.org/ |date=June 27, 2014}}</ref>
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* ''[Bulimulus acholus](/source/Bulimulus_acholus)'' <small>Mabille, 1895</small>
* ''[Bulimulus albus](/source/Bulimulus_albus)'' <small>(G. B. Sowerby, 1839)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus angustus](/source/Bulimulus_angustus)'' <small>Weyrauch, 1966</small>
* ''[Bulimulus apodemetes](/source/Bulimulus_apodemetes)'' <small>(d'Orbigny, 1835)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus aurismalchi](/source/Bulimulus_aurismalchi)'' <small>(O. F. Müller, 1774)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus bonariensis](/source/Bulimulus_bonariensis)'' <small>(Rafinesque, 1833)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus bouvieri](/source/Bulimulus_bouvieri)'' <small>Dautzenberg, 1897</small>
* ''[Bulimulus brunoi](/source/Bulimulus_brunoi)'' <small>(Ihering, 1917)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus buenavistensis](/source/Bulimulus_buenavistensis)'' <small>Pilsbry, 1897</small>
* ''[Bulimulus cacotycus](/source/Bulimulus_cacotycus)'' <small>Mabille, 1895</small>
* ''[Bulimulus cacticolus](/source/Bulimulus_cacticolus)'' <small>(Reeve, 1849)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus carmen](/source/Bulimulus_carmen)'' <small>Pilsbry & H.N. Lowe, 1932</small>
* ''[Bulimulus castelneaui](/source/Bulimulus_castelneaui)'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1857)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus catlowae](/source/Bulimulus_catlowae)'' <small>(Pfeiffer, 1847)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus coriaceus](/source/Bulimulus_coriaceus)'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1856)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus corderoi](/source/Bulimulus_corderoi)'' <small>(Parodiz, 1962)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus corneus](/source/Bulimulus_corneus)'' <small>(G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus corumbaensis](/source/Bulimulus_corumbaensis)'' <small>(Pilsbry, 1857)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus cuernavacensis](/source/Bulimulus_cuernavacensis)'' <small>Crosse & P. Fischer, 1874</small> (uncertain species)
** ''[Bulimulus dealbatus var. jonesi](/source/Bulimulus_dealbatus_var._jonesi)'' <small>Clench, 1937</small>
** ''[Bulimulus dealbatus neomexicanus](/source/Bulimulus_dealbatus_neomexicanus)'' <small>Pilsbry, 1946</small>
** ''[Bulimulus dealbatus ozarkensis](/source/Bulimulus_dealbatus_ozarkensis)'' <small>Pilsbry & Ferris, 1906</small>
** ''[Bulimulus dealbatus ragsdalei](/source/Bulimulus_dealbatus_ragsdalei)'' <small>(Pilsbry, 1890)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus diaphanus](/source/Bulimulus_diaphanus)''<ref name="Robinson 2009">{{cite journal |last1=Robinson |first1=D G |last2=Hovestadt |first2=A |last3=Fields |first3=A |last4=Breure |first4=A S H |title=The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species |journal=Zoologische Mededelingen |volume=83 |date=July 2009 |pages=615–650 |id={{ProQuest|890027555}} |citeseerx=10.1.1.732.9383 |url=https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/311940 }}</ref>
** ''Bulimulus diaphanus fraterculus'' <small>(Potiez & Michaud, 1835)</small><ref name="Robinson 2009"/>
* ''[Bulimulus dismenicus](/source/Bulimulus_dismenicus)'' <small>Mabille, 1895</small>
* ''[Bulimulus dukenfieldi](/source/Bulimulus_dukenfieldi)'' <small>Melvill, 1900</small>
* ''[Bulimulus dysoni](/source/Bulimulus_dysoni)'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1846)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus eganus](/source/Bulimulus_eganus)'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1853)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus elatior](/source/Bulimulus_elatior)'' <small>Hylton Scott, 1952</small>
* ''[Bulimulus erectus](/source/Bulimulus_erectus)'' <small>(Reeve, 1849)</small>
*{{extinct}}''[Bulimulus fazendicus](/source/Bulimulus_fazendicus)'' <small>Maury, 1935</small> - Paleocene fossil<ref name="Salvador & Simone 2013">{{cite journal |last1=Salvador |first1=Rodrigo Brincalepe |last2=Simone |first2=Luiz Ricardo Lopes de |title=Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil |journal=Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia |location=São Paulo |date=2013 |doi=10.1590/S0031-10492013000200001 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* ''[Bulimulus felipponei](/source/Bulimulus_felipponei)'' <small>Marshall, 1930</small>
* ''[Bulimulus fourmiersi](/source/Bulimulus_fourmiersi)'' <small>(d'Orbigny, 1835)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus fraterculus](/source/Bulimulus_fraterculus)'' <small>(A. Férussac, 1821)</small>
*{{extinct}}''[Bulimulus frenguellii](/source/Bulimulus_frenguellii)'' <small>(Cabrera ''et al.'', 2021)</small><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Cabrera |first1=F. |last2=Breure |first2=A. S. H. |last3=Norbis |first3=W. |last4=Martínez |first4=S. |title=Description of a new Late Cretaceous species of ''Bulimulus'' Leach, 1814 (Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae) using geometric morphometric analysis |year=2021 |journal=[Journal of Molluscan Studies](/source/Journal_of_Molluscan_Studies) |volume=87 |issue=2 |article-number=eyab006 |doi=10.1093/mollus/eyab006 }}</ref>
* ''[Bulimulus fuscus](/source/Bulimulus_fuscus)'' <small>Guilding, 1828</small>
* ''[Bulimulus gittenbergeri](/source/Bulimulus_gittenbergeri)'' <small>Breure, 1974</small>
* ''[Bulimulus glandiniformis](/source/Bulimulus_glandiniformis)'' <small>G. B. Sowerby III, 1892</small>
* ''[Bulimulus gorritiensis](/source/Bulimulus_gorritiensis)'' <small>Pilsbry, 1897</small>
* ''[Bulimulus gracilis](/source/Bulimulus_gracilis)'' <small>Hylton Scott, 1948</small>
* ''[Bulimulus guadalupensis](/source/Bulimulus_guadalupensis)'' <small>(Bruguière, 1789)</small><ref name="Robinson 2009"/>
**[Bulimulus guadalupensis shadowei](/source/Bulimulus_shadowei) <small>(Herrera, 2020)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus hamiltoni](/source/Bulimulus_hamiltoni)'' <small>(Reeve, 1849)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus haplochrous](/source/Bulimulus_haplochrous)'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1855)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus hummelincki](/source/Bulimulus_hummelincki)'' <small>(Breure, 1974)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus inermis](/source/Bulimulus_inermis)'' <small>(Morelet, 1851)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus inutilis](/source/Bulimulus_inutilis)'' <small>(Reeve, 1850)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus irregularis](/source/Bulimulus_irregularis)'' <small>(Pfeiffer, 1847)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus juvenilis](/source/Bulimulus_juvenilis)'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1855)</small>
* {{extinct}}''[Bulimulus klappenbachi](/source/Bulimulus_klappenbachi)'' <small>(Parodiz, 1969)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus krebsianus](/source/Bulimulus_krebsianus)'' <small>Pilsbry, 1897</small>
* ''[Bulimulus lehmanni](/source/Bulimulus_lehmanni)'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1865)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus lherminieri](/source/Bulimulus_lherminieri)'' <small>(P. Fischer, 1857)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus limnoides](/source/Bulimulus_limnoides)'' <small>(Férussac, 1832)</small><ref name="Robinson 2009"/>
* ''[Bulimulus marcidus](/source/Bulimulus_marcidus)'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1853)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus mollicellus](/source/Bulimulus_mollicellus)'' <small>(Reeve, 1849)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus mooreanus](/source/Bulimulus_mooreanus)'' <small>L. Pfeiffer, 1868</small>
* ''[Bulimulus nigromontanus](/source/Bulimulus_nigromontanus)'' <small>Dall, 1897</small>
* ''[Bulimulus ouallensis](/source/Bulimulus_ouallensis)'' <small>Breure & Hovestadt, 2016</small>
* ''[Bulimulus ovulum](/source/Bulimulus_ovulum)'' <small>(Reeve, 1844)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus pasonis](/source/Bulimulus_pasonis)'' <small>Pilsbry, 1902</small>
* ''[Bulimulus pervius](/source/Bulimulus_pervius)'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1853)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus pliculatus](/source/Bulimulus_pliculatus)'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1857)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus pliculosus](/source/Bulimulus_pliculosus)'' <small>(Ancey, 1901)</small> (''[taxon inquirendum](/source/Species_inquirenda)'')
* ''[Bulimulus prosopidis](/source/Bulimulus_prosopidis)'' <small>Holmberg, 1912</small>
* ''[Bulimulus pubescens](/source/Bulimulus_pubescens)'' <small>(Moricand, 1836)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus quitensis](/source/Bulimulus_quitensis)'' <small>(Pfeiffer, 1847)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus prosopidis](/source/Bulimulus_prosopidis)'' <small>Holmberg, 1912</small>
* ''[Bulimulus recognitus](/source/Bulimulus_recognitus)'' <small>Mabille, 1895</small>
* ''[Bulimulus regina](/source/Bulimulus_regina)'' <small>(T.E. Bowdich ex A.E.J. Férussac, 1822)</small> 
* ''[Bulimulus rushii](/source/Bulimulus_rushii)'' <small>(Pilsbry, 1896)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus sanmarcosensis](/source/Bulimulus_sanmarcosensis)'' <small>Pilsbry & H.N. Lowe, 1932</small>
* ''[Bulimulus sarcodes](/source/Bulimulus_sarcodes)'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1846)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus schadei](/source/Bulimulus_schadei)'' <small>Schlesch, 1935</small>
* ''[Bulimulus schiedeanus](/source/Bulimulus_schiedeanus)'' <small>(Pfeiffer, 1841)</small>
** ''[Bulimulus schiedeanus pecosensis](/source/Bulimulus_schiedeanus_pecosensis)'' <small>Pilsbry & Ferris 1906</small>
* ''[Bulimulus sepulchralis](/source/Bulimulus_sepulchralis)'' <small>Poey, 1852</small><ref name="ecosis.cu">[http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm "Mollusca"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718163216/http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm |date=July 18, 2011 }}. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.</ref>
* ''[Bulimulus slevini](/source/Bulimulus_slevini)'' <small>[Hanna](/source/G._Dallas_Hanna), 1923</small><ref>{{cite journal|first=G. Dallas|last=Hanna|author-link=:fr:G. Dallas Hanna|year=1923|title=Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921. Land and freshwater mollusks|journal=Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences|series=4|volume=12|number=17|pages=483–528|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54212#page/514/mode/1up}}</ref>
* ''[Bulimulus subspirifer](/source/Bulimulus_subspirifer)'' <small>Mabille, 1895</small>
* ''[Bulimulus sula](/source/Bulimulus_sula)'' <small>Simone & Amaral, 2018</small>
* ''[Bulimulus tenuissimus](/source/Bulimulus_tenuissimus)'' <small>(Orbigny, 1835)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus transparens](/source/Bulimulus_transparens)'' <small>(Reeve, 1849)</small><ref name="Breure 2010"/>
*{{extinct}}''[Bulimulus trindadeae](/source/Bulimulus_trindadeae)'' <small>Ferreira & Coelho, 1971</small> - Paleocene fossil<ref name="Salvador & Simone 2013"/>
* ''[Bulimulus turritellatus](/source/Bulimulus_turritellatus)'' <small>Beck, 1837</small>
* ''[Bulimulus turritus](/source/Bulimulus_turritus)'' <small>(Broderip, 1832)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus unicolor](/source/Bulimulus_unicolor)'' <small>(G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus uniplicatus](/source/Bulimulus_uniplicatus)'' <small>(Férussac, 1827)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus versicolor](/source/Bulimulus_versicolor)'' <small>(Jan, 1832)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus vesicalis](/source/Bulimulus_vesicalis)'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1853)</small>
** ''[Bulimulus vesicalis uruguayanus](/source/Bulimulus_vesicalis_uruguayanus)'' <small>(Pilsbry, 1897)</small>
* ''[Bulimulus wiebesi](/source/Bulimulus_wiebesi)'' <small>Breure, 1974</small>
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;Undescribed species:
* [''Bulimulus'' sp. nov. 'josevillani'](/source/Bulimulus_sp._nov._'josevillani')
* [''Bulimulus'' sp. nov. 'krameri'](/source/Bulimulus_sp._nov._'krameri')
* [''Bulimulus'' sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri'](/source/Bulimulus_sp._nov._'nilsodhneri')
* [''Bulimulus'' sp. nov. 'tuideroyi'](/source/Bulimulus_sp._nov._'tuideroyi')
* [''Bulimulus'' sp. nov. 'vanmoli'](/source/Bulimulus_sp._nov._'vanmoli')

;Synonyms:
* ''Bulimulus dealbatus'' <small>(Say, 1821)</small>: synonym of ''[Rabdotus dealbatus](/source/Rabdotus_dealbatus)'' <small>(Say, 1821)</small>
* ''Bulimulus inconspicuus'' Haas, 1949:<ref name="Breure 2010">{{cite journal |last1=Breure |first1=A S H |last2=Avila |first2=V Mogollón |title=Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) |journal=Zoologische Mededelingen |volume=84 |date=November 2010 |pages=15–35 |id={{ProQuest|890024806}} |citeseerx=10.1.1.733.1097 |s2cid=83102022 }}</ref> synonym of ''[Drymaeus inconspicuus](/source/Drymaeus_inconspicuus)'' <small>(Haas, 1949)</small> (original combination)
* ''Bulimulus pilsbryi'' <small>Ferris 1925</small>: synonym of ''[Rabdotus pilsbryi](/source/Rabdotus_pilsbryi)'' <small>(Ferriss, 1925)</small>
* ''Bulimulus sporadicus'' <small>(Orbigny, 1835)</small>: synonym of ''[Bulimulus bonariensis](/source/Bulimulus_bonariensis)'' <small>(Rafinesque, 1833)</small>
* ''Bulimulus trindadensis'' <small>Breure & Coelho, 1976</small> synonym of ''[Vegrandinia](/source/Vegrandinia) trindadensis'' <small>(Breure & Coelho, 1976)</small> within Subulinidae.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Salvador |first1=R.B. |last2=Cunha |first2=C.M. |last3=Simone |first3=L.R.L. |title=Taxonomic revision of the orthalicid land snails (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora) from Trindade Island, Brazil |journal=Journal of Natural History |date=April 2013 |volume=47 |issue=13–14 |pages=949–961 |doi=10.1080/00222933.2012.759290 |s2cid=84228003 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Bulimulus}}
*[http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/gastro/tree_snails.htm tree snails of Florida, ''Bulimulus'' spp.] on the [UF](/source/University_of_Florida) / [IFAS](/source/Institute_of_Food_and_Agricultural_Sciences) Featured Creatures Web site
* {{cite journal |last1=Breure |first1=A. S. H. |title=Caribbean Land Molluscs: Bulimulidae I. Bulimulus |journal=Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands |date=1 January 1974 |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=1–80 |url=https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506178 }}

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