Bulla Linnaeus 1758 (snail)

Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Bullidae

Synonym: Vesica Swainson 1840

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Parent taxon: Bullidae according to M. Harzhauser 2007

See also Addicott 1970, Bouchet et al. 2017, DuBar 1958, Kendrick 1990, Olsson and Harbison 1953, Oostingh 1935, Sepkoski 2002 and Todd 2001

Sister taxa: Bullinella, Bullopsis, Bullus

Subtaxa: Bulla (Bulla) Bulla (Tornatina) Bulla ampulla Bulla arenasia Bulla argosensis Bulla assimilata Bulla cantuaensis Bulla clathrata Bulla coclis Bulla conica Bulla conulus Bulla coronata Bulla crassiplica Bulla cylindrica Bulla cylindroides Bulla globulus Bulla gouldiana Bulla infundibulum Bulla laevis Bulla lignaria Bulla macfadyeni Bulla minima Bulla minuta Bulla ovulata Bulla plicata Bulla punctulata Bulla reussi Bulla semistriata Bulla stampinensis Bulla striata Bulla striatella Bulla subampulla Bulla vernicosa Bulla verrucosa Bulla volva

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Type: Bulla ampulla

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), the Bahamas (4), Bermuda (3), Brazil (1), Cayman Islands (3), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (3), Djibouti (3), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (2), Eritrea (1), French Polynesia (1), Haiti (7), Jamaica (3), Mayotte (1), Mexico (4), Panama (1), Peru (1), Saudi Arabia (3), the Seychelles (1), South Africa (4), United States (38: California, Florida, Hawaii), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene of Chile (2), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (4), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (2), Fiji (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (2), Jamaica (2), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (12: California, Florida), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (5)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (3), United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Chile (5), Colombia (2), the Dominican Republic (4), Germany (5), Grenada (2), Haiti (4), Indonesia (2), Jamaica (1), Morocco (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Panama (3), Puerto Rico (1), Ukraine (1), United States (13: California, Florida)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Oman (1), Panama (1), United States (1: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Antarctica (7), France (16), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (2: California, Texas)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Greenland (2)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), France (3), Switzerland (5), United States (4: Alabama, Delaware, Mississippi)

• Jurassic of Portugal (1), Somalia (1), Yemen (1)

Total: 249 collections including 285 occurrences

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