''Amphibulima'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s, a
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Amphibulimidae.
[Breure A. S. H., Groenenberg D. S. J. & Schilthuizen M. (2010). "New insights in the phylogenetic relations within the Orthalicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) based on 28S sequence data". '' Basteria'' 74(1-3): 25-31.] [MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Amphibulima Lamarck, 1805. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=870090 on 2022-07-10]
''Amphibulima'' is the type genus of the subfamily
Amphibuliminae.
Species
Species in the genus ''Amphibulima'' include:
* ''
Amphibulima browni''
Pilsbry, 1899 - endemic to
Dominica
Dominica ( or ; Kalinago: ; french: Dominique; Dominican Creole French: ), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. It is geographically ...
[Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". ''Zoologische Mededelingen'' 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 ]
* ''
Amphibulima cucullata''
Lamarck, 1805
* ''
Amphibulima pardalina''
Guppy, 1868 - endemic to Dominica
* ''
Amphibulima patula''
(Bruguière, 1792)
** ''Amphibulima patula patula''
(Bruguière, 1792)
** ''Amphibulima patula dominicensis''
Pilsbry, 1899 - endemic to Dominica
* ''
Amphibulima rawsonis''
Bland, 1876
* ''
Amphibulima tigrina''
(Lesueur in Férussac, 1821)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Amphibulima depressa''
(Rang, 1834) accepted as ''
Pellicula depressa''
(Rang, 1834) (superseded combination)
* ''Amphibulima felina''
Guppy, 1873 accepted as ''
Omalonyx unguis''
(d'Orbigny, 1836) (junior synonym)
* ''Amphibulima imbricata''
Rochebrune, 1882: synonym of ''
Hyalimax imbricatus''
(Rochebrune, 1882) (original combination)
* ''Amphibulima rubescens''
(Deshayes, 1830) - endemic to Martinique:
synonym of ''
Rhodonyx rubescens''
(Deshayes, 1830)
* ''Amphibulima succinea''
Lamarck, 1805: synonym of ''
Succinea putris''
(Linnaeus, 1758) (invalid: unjustified replacement
Comparison of species of ''Amphibulima'':
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1805). Sur l'Amphibulime. Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. 6: 303-306Guppy, R. J. L. (1868). On the terrestrial mollusks of Dominica and Grenada, with an account of some new species from Trinidad. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (4) 1: 429-442
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Amphibulimidae