Bullina
| Bullina | |
|---|---|
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| A live individual of Bullina lineata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal group Lower Heterobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Acteonoidea |
| Family: | Bullinidae |
| Genus: | Bullina Férussac, 1822 |
Bullina is a genus of sea snails or bubble snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Bullinidae.
Species
Species within the genus Bullina include:
- Bullina callizona Sakurai & Habe, 1961
- Distribution : Philippines
- Description : white ovate shell with four narrow pink spiraling bands.
- Bullina exquisita McGinty, 1955, the exquisite bubble
- Distribution : Indian Ocean
- Length : 7.8 mm
- Description : found at depths of 90 to 110 m
- Bullina lineata[1][2] Gray 1825, the red-lined bubble
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific, Japan to Australia.
- Bullina nobilis Habe, 1950
- Distribution : Japan, Philippines
- Length : 10–21 mm
- Description : ovate shell with wide aperture, narrowing at the top, and white outer lip; shell with horizontally spiraling redbrown bands, crossing wavy vertical bands in the same color, over a white background. Twisted columella.
- Bullina oblonga Sowerby, 1893
- Distribution : South Africa, Réunion.
- Length : 8-11.5 mm
- Description : rather rare; almost white shell, crossed by numerous redbrown fine spiraling bands that end at the columella.
- Bullina roseana Rudman, 1971
- Distribution : New Zealand
- Description : translucent white snail; headshield forms a large pair of flaps; large, thin foot; operculum is fastened to the rear midline; pinkish white ovate shell with two pink spiraling lines; large aperture, narrowing at the top; straight, white columella
- Bullina torrei (Aguayo & Rehder, 1936)
- Distribution : Cuba, Virgin Islands, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Bengal.
- Length : 8.5 mm
- Description : found at depths of 15 to 27 m
- Bullina virgo Habe, 1950
- Distribution : Philippines
- Length : 8 mm
- Description : white shell crossed by two pale pink spiraling bands.
- Bullina vitrea Pease, 1860
- Distribution : Australia, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Japan
- Description : found at depths of 12–15 m; shell with two gray or black spiraling bands and a yellowish color at the anterior and posterior; the snail is translucent clear with white pigmentation.
References
- ↑ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ↑ Morley, M. S., Photographic Guide to Seashells of New Zealand, New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd, 2004 ISBN 1-86966-044-7
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