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.[1]

Auris
Shell of Auris melanostoma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Auris
Spix, 1827
Type species
Bulimus melastomus
Swainson, 1820
Synonyms[1]
  • Bulimus (Pachyotus) H. Beck, 1837 (Invalid: junior homonym of Pachyotus Gray, 1831 [Mammalia])
  • Pachyotus H. Beck, 1837

Species

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Species in the genus Bulimulus include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Auris Spix, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine * At: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995852 on 2021-02-20
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