Biology:Auris (gastropod)

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Auris
Shell of Auris melanostoma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Bulimulidae
Genus:	Auris Spix, 1827
Type species
Bulimus melastomus Swainson, 1820
Synonyms
Bulimus (Pachyotus) H. Beck, 1837 (Invalid: junior homonym of Pachyotus Gray, 1831 [Mammalia]) Pachyotus H. Beck, 1837

Auris is a genus of small to medium-sized tropical or sub-tropical, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Bulimulinae within the family Bulimulidae.

Species

Species in the genus Bulimulus include:

• Auris bernardii (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
• Auris bilabiata (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1830)
• Auris brachyplax Pilsbry, 1896
• Auris chrysostoma (Moricand , 1836)
• Auris egregia (Jay, 1836)
• Auris icterostoma (E. v. Martens, 1901)
• Auris illheocola (Moricand , 1836)
• Auris melanostoma (Moricand , 1836)
• Auris melastoma (Swainson, 1820)
• Auris nigrilabris Pilsbry, 1896

Species brought into synonymy

• Auris distorta (Bruguière, 1789): synonym of Plekocheilus distortus (Bruguière, 1789)
• Auris signata Spix in Wagner, 1827: synonym of Otostomus signatus (Spix in Wagner, 1827) (basionym)

External links

• Wagner J.A. (1827). Testacea fluviatilia quae in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX [1817-1820] jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis augustissimi suscepto, collegit et pingenda curavit Dr. J. B. de Spix (...), digessit, descripsit et observationibus illustravit Dr. J. A. Wagner. Munich: C. Wolf. pp. i-iv, 1-36, plates 1-29
• Beck, H. (1837). Index molluscorum praesentis aevi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici. 1-124. Hafniae
• Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065

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