Scutalus
A live individual of Scutalus mariopenai
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
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

Species in the genus Scutalus include:

  • Scutalus baroni (Fulton, 1896)
  • Scutalus broggii (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1949)
  • Scutalus chango Araya & Breure, 2017
  • Scutalus chiletensis Weyrauch, 1967[2]
  • Scutalus coraeformis (Pilsbry, 1897)
  • Scutalus cousini (Jousseaume, 1887)
  • Scutalus cretaceus (Pfeiffer, 1855)[4] - images
  • Scutalus grandiventris Weyrauch, 1960
  • Scutalus latecolumellaris (Preston, 1909)
  • Scutalus macedoi Weyrauch, 1967[4]
  • Scutalus mariopenai Breure & Mogollón Avilla, 2010[4]
  • Scutalus mutabilis (W.J. Broderip, 1832) (synonym: Bulinus mutabilis Broderip, 1832)
  • Scutalus nivalis (d'Orbigny, 1835)
  • Scutalus omissus Weyrauch, 1967
  • Scutalus ortizpuentei Weyrauch, 1967[4]
  • Scutalus phaeocheilus (Haas, 1955)[4]
  • Scutalus pilosus Weyrauch, 1967
  • Scutalus prometheus (J.C.H. Crosse, 1869) (synonym: Bulimus prometheus J.C.H. Crosse, 1869)
  • Scutalus proteiformis (Dohrn, 1863)[4]
  • Scutalus proteus (W.J. Broderip, 1832) (synonym: Bulinus proteus Broderip, 1832) [5]
  • Scutalus quechuarum (Crawford, 1939)
  • Scutalus sanborni (Haas, 1947)
  • Scutalus sordidus (Deshayes, 1838)
  • Scutalus steerei (Pilsbry, 1900)
  • Scutalus versicolor (Broderip, 1832)[6]
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

  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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