Bulimulus guadalupensis is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulimulinae.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Bulimulidae |
Genus: | Bulimulus |
Species: | B. guadalupensis
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Binomial name | |
Bulimulus guadalupensis (Bruguière, 1789)
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The specific name guadalupensis refers to the West Indian island of Guadeloupe.
Bulimulus guadalupensis probably originated in the Windward Islands (Breure, 1974).[2][1] Now it is distributed throughout the Caribbean Basin, including Florida.[1]
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