Bulimulus Leach, 1814

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Borrero, Francisco J., 2008, An annotated checklist of the land snail family Orthalicidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea) in Ecuador, with notes on the distribution of the mainland species, Zootaxa 1768, pp. 1-40 : 9-10

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.274265
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5616402
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Genus Bulimulus Leach, 1814 View in CoL

Type species: Helix exilis Gmelin, 1791 . Distribution: West Indies, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico.

33. Bulimulus fontainii (d’Orbigny, 1837)

Type locality: Near Guayaquil. Holotype BMNH 1854.12.4.165.

Distribution: Guayas, near Guayaquil ( FMNH 31339).

Remarks: This is the only species of Bulimulus s.str. and is well outside the range of this genus. Once revised this taxon may prove to be a synonym, possibly of Drymaeus cactivorus (Broderip) .