''Auris'' is a
genus
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of small to medium-sized
tropical
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or sub-tropical, air-breathing
land snail
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s,
pulmonate
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the subfamily
Bulimulinae
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.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bulimulidae Tr ...
within the family
Bulimulidae
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.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bulimulidae Tr ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Auris Spix, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine * At: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995852 on 2021-02-20]
Species
Species in the genus ''Bulimulus'' include:
* ''
Auris bernardii''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
* ''
Auris bilabiata''
(Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1830)
* ''
Auris brachyplax''
Pilsbry, 1896
* ''
Auris chrysostoma''
( Moricand , 1836)
* ''
Auris egregia''
(Jay, 1836)
* ''
Auris icterostoma''
(E. v. Martens, 1901)
* ''
Auris illheocola''
( Moricand , 1836)
* ''
Auris melanostoma''
( Moricand , 1836)
* ''
Auris melastoma''
(Swainson, 1820)
* ''
Auris nigrilabris''
Pilsbry, 1896
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Auris distorta''
(Bruguière, 1789): synonym of ''
Plekocheilus distortus''
(Bruguière, 1789)
* ''Auris signata''
Spix in Wagner, 1827: synonym of ''
Otostomus signatus''
(Spix in Wagner, 1827) (basionym)
References
External links
Wagner J.A. (1827). Testacea fluviatilia quae in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX [1817-1820jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis augustissimi suscepto, collegit et pingenda curavit Dr. J. B. de Spix (...), digessit, descripsit et observationibus illustravit Dr. J. A. Wagner. Munich: C. Wolf. pp. i-iv, 1-36, plates 1-29]
Beck, H. (1837). Index molluscorum praesentis aevi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici. 1-124. HafniaeBreure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065
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