Family BULLINIDAE Gray, 1850

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• Bullinidae Gray, 1850.

  Type genus:

   Bullina Férussac, 1822.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gray, M.E. 1850. Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. London : Longmans, Brown & Green Vol. 4 124 pp.

Introduction

The shell of bullinid species has a short spire as in acteonids but is light and thin as in aplustrids. It is usually white in colour with red spiral and axial bands. The animal is usually translucent white with brightly pigmented margins. An operculum is present, hardly filling the shell aperture. Bullinids are epifaunal animals, often seen crawling in lower intertidal pools in New South Wales.

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234.

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42

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