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Scutalus

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Scutalus
A live individual of Scutalus mariopenai
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Scutalus
Albers, 1850[1]
Type species
Bulinus proteus Broderip, 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
  • Spiroscutalus Pilsbry, 1932
  • Xenothauma Fulton, 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

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Species in the genus Scutalus include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Scutalus pluto (J.C.H. Crosse, 1869) (synonym: Bulimus pluto Crosse, 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

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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. 1 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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)".
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