Auris (gastropod)
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| Shell of Auris melanostoma | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bulimulidae |
| Genus: | Auris Spix, 1827 |
| Type species | |
| Bulimus melastomus Swainson, 1820
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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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.[1]
Species[edit]
Species in the genus Bulimulus include:
- Auris bernardii (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
- Auris bilabiata (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1830)
- Auris brachyplax Pilsbry, 1896
- Auris chrysostoma (Moricand , 1836)
- Auris egregia (Jay, 1836)
- Auris icterostoma (E. v. Martens, 1901)
- Auris illheocola (Moricand , 1836)
- Auris melanostoma (Moricand , 1836)
- Auris melastoma (Swainson, 1820)
- Auris nigrilabris Pilsbry, 1896
- Species brought into synonymy
- Auris distorta (Bruguière, 1789): synonym of Plekocheilus distortus (Bruguière, 1789)
- Auris signata Spix in Wagner, 1827: synonym of Otostomus signatus (Spix in Wagner, 1827) (basionym)
References[edit]
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Auris Spix, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine * At: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995852 on 2021-02-20
External links[edit]
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- 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 “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065