''Bullia'' is a

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sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

s, marine

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mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the

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Nassariidae The Nassariidae, Nassa mud snails (US), or dog whelks (UK) are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized snails, mostly marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. These snails have rounded shells with a high spire, an oval ap ...

, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.

Description

The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid behind. The shell is ovate or turreted. The

spire A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spire ...

is more or less acuminated, the sutures enamelled. The inner

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is excavated in the middle, callous posteriorly. The

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is oval and moderate.

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 ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' (Lamarck, 1816) * † ''

Bullia bantamensis ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' Oostingh, 1933 * ''

Bullia callosa ''Bullia callosa'', common name the callused bullia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The length of the shell varies between 18 mm and 50 ...

'' (W. Wood, 1828) * ''

Bullia cataphracta ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' Kilburn, 1978 * ''

Bullia ceroplasta ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' Melvill, 1898 * ''

Bullia chitanii ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' Yokoyama, 1926 † * ''

Bullia crosseana ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' Tapparone-Canefri, 1882 (nomen dubium) * ''

Bullia cumingiana ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' Dunker, 1852 * ''

Bullia digitalis ''Bullia digitalis'', the finger plough shell , plough snail or surfing snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. These dominant scavengers are ...

'' (Dillwyn, 1817) * ''

Bullia diluta ''Bullia diluta'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae The Nassariidae, Nassa mud snails (US), or dog whelks (UK) are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized snails, mostly marine gastropod ...

'' (Krauss, 1848) * ''

Bullia elegans ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' Dunker, 1857 (nomen dubium) * ''

Bullia granulosa ''Naytia granulosa'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, commonly referred to as the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Naytia granulosa (Lamarck, 1822). Accessed t ...

'' (Lamarck, 1822) - synonym: ''Bullia fusca'' Craven * ''

Bullia gruveli ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' (Dautzenberg, 1910) * ''

Bullia indusindica ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' Melvill, 1898 * ''

Bullia insignis ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' Turton, 1932 (nomen dubium) * ''

Bullia jucunda ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' Turton, 1932 * ''

Bullia kurrachensis ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot is greatly expanded, and bifid be ...

'' Angas, 1877 * ''

Bullia laevissima ''Bullia laevissima'', common name the fat plough shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The length of the shell varies between 35 mm and 67&n ...

'' (Gmelin, 1791) * † '' 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 * ''

Bullia mozambicensis ''Bullia mozambicensis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Distribution Distribution of ''Bullia mozambicensis'' includes: * List of marine mol ...

'' Smith, 1878 * '' Bullia natalensis'' (Krauss, 1848). * '' Bullia nitida'' Sowerby, 1895 * '' Bullia nuttalli'' Kilburn, 1978 * '' Bullia osculata'' Sowerby III, 1900 * ''

Bullia osseum ''Bullia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. Description The animal is without eyes. The tentacles are long and slender. The foot ...

'' 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 * '' Bullia rhodostoma'' Reeve, 1847 * '' 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 * '' 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: synonym of '' Bullia tranquebarica'' (Röding, 1798) * ''Bullia cinerea'' Preston, 1906: synonym of ''

Nassarius dorsatus ''Nassarius dorsatus'', common name the channeled nassa, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.Bouchet, P. (2015). Nassarius dorsatus (Röding, 1798). In: MolluscaBase ...

'' (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 ''Pusionella'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Clavatulidae. Description The fusiform shell is solid, smooth and shining, with numerous Whorl (mollusc), whorls. The Spire (mollusc), spire is sh ...

'' (Dunker, 1852)

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