Scutalus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.[2]
Scutalus | |
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A live individual of Scutalus mariopenai | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
Family: | Bulimulidae |
Genus: | Scutalus Albers, 1850[1] |
Type species | |
Bulinus proteus Broderip, 1832 | |
Synonyms | |
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Previously this genus was placed within the subfamily Bulimulinae.[3]
Species in the genus Scutalus include: