Scutalus

Scutalus
A live individual of Scutalus mariopenai
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Scutalus
Albers, 1850
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.

Previously this genus was placed within the subfamily Bulimulinae.

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