''Bullina'' is a
genus
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of
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 or bubble snails,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
molluscs
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in the
family
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Aplustridae
The Aplustridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of sea snails or bubble snails, Marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acteonoidea.
The former name of this family, Hydatinidae (Pilsbry, 1893) has ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Bullina'' include:
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Bullina callizona'' Sakurai & Habe, 1961
**Distribution : Philippines
**Description : white ovate shell with four narrow pink spiraling bands.
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Bullina exquisita'' McGinty, 1955, the exquisite bubble
**Distribution : Indian Ocean
**Length : 7.8 mm
**Description : found at depths of 90 to 110 m
* ''
Bullina lineata''
Gray
Grey (more frequent in British English) or gray (more frequent in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a cloud-covered s ...
1825, the red-lined bubble
**Distribution : Indo-Pacific, Japan to Australia.
*''
Bullina nobilis'' Habe, 1950
**Distribution : Japan, Philippines
**Length : 10–21 mm
**Description : ovate shell with wide aperture, narrowing at the top, and white outer lip; shell with horizontally spiraling red-brown bands, crossing wavy vertical bands in the same color, over a white background. Twisted columella.
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Bullina oblonga'' Sowerby, 1893
**Distribution : South Africa, Réunion.
**Length : 8-11.5 mm
**Description : rather rare; almost white shell, crossed by numerous red-brown fine spiraling bands that end at the columella.
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Bullina torrei'' (Aguayo & Rehder, 1936)
**Distribution : Cuba, Virgin Islands, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Bengal.
**Length : 8.5 mm
**Description : found at depths of 15 to 27 m
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Bullina virgo'' Habe, 1950
**Distribution : Philippines
**Length : 8 mm
**Description : white shell crossed by two pale pink spiraling bands.
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Bullina vitrea
''Bullina vitrea'' is a species of small sea snail, a bubble snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aplustridae, one of the families of bubble snails. This species occurs in Australia, Hawaii, New Caledonia, and New South ...
'' Pease, 1860
**Distribution : Australia, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Japan
**Description : found at depths of 12–15 m; shell with two gray or black spiraling bands and a yellowish color at the anterior and posterior; the snail is translucent clear with white pigmentation.
References
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Aplustridae
Taxa named by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac