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Scutalus

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Scutalus
A live individual ofScutalus mariopenai
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

Scutalusis agenusof air-breathingland snails,aterrestrialpulmonategastropodmollusksin the familyBulimulidae.[2]

Previously this genus was placed within the subfamilyBulimulinae.[3]

Shells ofScutalussp. on aMochepot, 200 AD.Larco Museum Collection,Lima, Peru.

Species

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Species in the genusScutalusinclude:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Scutalus pluto(J.C.H. Crosse, 1869)(synonym:Bulimus plutoCrosse, 1869): synonym ofBocourtia pluto(Crosse, 1869)
  • Scutalus revinctus(Hupé, 1857):synonym ofBulimus revinctusHupé, 1857
  • Scutalus tupacii(d'Orbigny, 1835):synonym ofBocourtia tupacii(d'Orbigny, 1835)
  • Scutalus weddellii(Hupé, 1857)(synonym:Bulimus weddelliiHupé, 1857): synonym ofBocourtia weddellii(Hupé, 1857)

References

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  1. ^Albers J. C. (1850).Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers:1-262. Berlin. page 160.
  2. ^abBreure 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 Malacology141(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 VerhandelingenLeiden168:1-215, figs 1-182, pls. 1-3, tables 1-5.PDF.
  4. ^abcdefBreure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)".Zoologische Mededelingen84.HTM.
  5. ^"Taxonomy browser (Scutalus proteus)".
  6. ^"Taxonomy browser (Scutalus versicolor)".
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