Bulimulus alternatus

Bulimulus alternatus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.

Bulimulus alternatus
Two views of a shell of Bulimulus alternatus mariae from Binney 1878[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Orthalicoidea
Family:
Orthalicidae
Subfamily:
Bulimulinae
Genus:
Bulimulus
Species:
B. alternatus
Binomial name
Bulimulus alternatus
(Say, 1830)

Subspecies

Subspecies include:

  • Bulimulus alternatus mariae (Albers, 1850)

References
  1. Binney, W. G., 1878. The terrestrial shell-bearing mollusks of the United States and the adjacent territories of North America. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. (Harvard), vol. 5.


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