Bullia

Bullia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[2]

Bullia
Black and white drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Bullia mozambicensis. The scale bar is probably 1 inch.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Nassariidae
Genus: Bullia
Griffith, 1834[1]
Type species
Bullia semiplicata
Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833
Synonyms[2]
  • Adinopsis Odhner, 1923 (preoccupied by Adinopsis Cameron 1918 (Coleoptera))
  • Adinus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Buccinum (Bullia)
  • Bullia (Adinus) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Bullia (Bullia) Gray, 1833
  • Bullia (Cereobullia) Melvill & Peile, 1924
  • Bullia (Leiodomus) Swainson, 1840
  • Bullia (Pseudostrombus) Mörch, 1852
  • Bulliana Gray, 1842
  • Dorsanum (Adinus) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Dorsanum (Fluviodorsum) Boettger, 1885
  • Leiodomus Swainson, 1840
  • Pseudostrombus Moerch, 1852

Species

The following subgenera are recognized:

  • Bullia (Bullia) Gray, 1834
  • Bullia (Cereobullia) Melvill & Peile, 1924

Species within the genus Bullia include:

  • Bullia aikeni Kilburn, 1978
  • Bullia ancillaeformis Smith, 1906
  • Bullia annulata (Lamarck, 1816) [3]
  • † Bullia bantamensis Oostingh, 1933
  • Bullia callosa (W. Wood, 1828) [4]
  • Bullia cataphracta Kilburn, 1978
  • Bullia ceroplasta Melvill, 1898
  • Bullia chitanii Yokoyama, 1926 †
  • Bullia crosseana Tapparone-Canefri, 1882 (nomen dubium)
  • Bullia cumingiana Dunker, 1852
  • Bullia digitalis (Dillwyn, 1817) [5]
  • Bullia diluta (Krauss, 1848) [6]
  • Bullia elegans Dunker, 1857 (nomen dubium)
  • Bullia granulosa (Lamarck, 1822)[7] - synonym: Bullia fusca Craven[8]
  • Bullia gruveli (Dautzenberg, 1910)
  • Bullia indusindica Melvill, 1898
  • Bullia insignis Turton, 1932 (nomen dubium)
  • Bullia jucunda Turton, 1932
  • Bullia kurrachensis Angas, 1877
  • Bullia laevissima (Gmelin, 1791) [9]
  • † Bullia litoralis Oostingh, 1933
  • Bullia livida Reeve, 1846
  • Bullia martinii Gray, 1843 (nomen dubium)
  • Bullia mauritiana Gray, 1839
  • Bullia melanoides (Deshayes, 1832)
  • Bullia mirepicta Bozzetti, 2007[10]
  • Bullia mozambicensis Smith, 1878 [11]
  • Bullia natalensis (Krauss, 1848).[12]
  • Bullia nitida Sowerby, 1895
  • Bullia nuttalli Kilburn, 1978
  • Bullia osculata Sowerby III, 1900
  • Bullia osseum Menke, 1829 (nomen dubium)
  • Bullia othaeitensis (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Bullia perlucida Bozzetti, 2014
  • Bullia perryi Jay, 1855 (nomen dubium)
  • Bullia persica Smith, 1878
  • † Bullia provecta Beets, 1942
  • Bullia pulchella Turton, 1932 (nomen dubium)
  • Bullia pura Melvill, 1885 [13]
  • Bullia rhodostoma Reeve, 1847 [14]
  • Bullia rogersi Smythe & Chatfield, 1981
  • Bullia semiplicata Gray, 1833
  • Bullia sendersi Kilburn, 1978
  • Bullia similis Sowerby, 1897
  • Bullia skoogi (Odhner, 1923)
  • Bullia smytheae Moolenbeek & Dekker, 1994
  • † Bullia sundaica Oostingh, 1939
  • Bullia tamsiana Dunker, 1853
  • Bullia tenuis Reeve, 1846
  • Bullia terebraeformis Dautzenberg[15]
  • Bullia townsendi Melvill, 1912
  • Bullia tranquebarica (Röding, 1798)
  • Bullia trifasciata Smith, 1904
  • Bullia truncata Reeve, 1846
  • Bullia turrita Gray, 1839
  • Bullia vittata (Linnaeus, 1767)

Synonyms:

  • Bullia belangeri Kiener:[16] synonym of Bullia tranquebarica (Röding, 1798)
  • Bullia cinerea Preston, 1906: synonym of Nassarius dorsatus (Röding, 1798)
  • Bullia fuscus Gray in Dieffenbach, 1834 is a synonym of Impages hectica (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Bullia miran (Bruguière, 1789) is a synonym of Dorsanum miran (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Bullia truncata Reeve, 1846: synonym of Adinus truncatus (Reeve, 1846)
  • Bullia valida Dunker, 1852 is a synonym of Pusionella valida (Dunker, 1852)

References
  1. Griffith (1834). In: Griffith & Cuvier, An. Kingdom 12: plate 37.
  2. Bullia Griffith, 1834. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 November 2012.
  3. Bullia annulata . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  4. Bullia callosa Gray. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  5. Bullia digitalis . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  6. Bullia diluta . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  7. Bullia granulosa (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  8. Bullia fusca Craven. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  9. Bullia laevissima . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  10. Bullia mirepicta Bozzetti, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  11. Bullia mozambicensis . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  12. Bullia natalensis Kr.. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  13. Bullia pura . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  14. Bullia rhodostoma . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  15. Bullia terebraeformis Dautzenberg. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  16. Bullia belangeri Kiener. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.

Further reading
  • Odhner, N.H. (1923) Contribution to the marine molluscan faunas of South and West Africa. Meddelanden fran Göteborgs Musei Zoologiska Avdelning, 23, 1–39, 1 pl. page(s): 15
  • Abbott, R.T. & S.P. Dance (1986). Compendium of sea shells. American Malacologists, Inc:Melbourne, Florida
  • Allmon W. D. (1990). "Review of the Bullia group (Gastropoda: Nassariidae) with comments on its evolution, biogeography, and phylogeny". Bulletins of American Paleontology 99(335): 179 pp., 15 pls.
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