Auris is a genus of small to medium-sized tropical or sub-tropical, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Bulimulinae within the family Bulimulidae.
Species
Species in the genus Bulimulus include:
- Auris bernardii <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1856)</small>
- Auris bilabiata <small>(Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1830)</small>
- Auris brachyplax <small>Pilsbry, 1896</small>
- Auris chrysostoma <small>(Moricand, 1836)</small>
- Auris egregia <small>(Jay, 1836)</small>
- Auris icterostoma <small>(E. v. Martens, 1901)</small>
- Auris illheocola <small>(Moricand, 1836)</small>
- Auris melanostoma <small>(Moricand, 1836)</small>
- Auris melastoma <small>(Swainson, 1820)</small>
- Auris nigrilabris <small>Pilsbry, 1896</small>
Species brought into synonymy:
- Auris distorta <small>(Bruguière, 1789)</small>: synonym of Plekocheilus distortus <small>(Bruguière, 1789)</small>
- Auris signata <small>Spix in Wagner, 1827</small>: synonym of Otostomus signatus <small>(Spix in Wagner, 1827)</small> (basionym)
References
External links
- Wagner J.A. (1827). Testacea fluviatilia quae in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX [1817-1820] jussu 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. Hafniae
- Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the âÂÂComisión CientÃÂfica del PacÃÂfico.âÂÂ. PeerJ. 5, e3065