Scutalus

Scutalus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.^[2]

Scutalus
A live individual of Scutalus mariopenai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Bulimulidae
Genus:	Scutalus Albers, 1850[1]
Type species
Bulinus proteus Broderip, 1832
Synonyms
Buliminus (Scutalus) Albers, 1850· accepted, alternate representation Bulimulus (Scutalus) Albers, 1850 Bulimus (Scutalus) Albers, 1850 (original rank) Scutalus (Scutalus) Albers, 1850· accepted, alternate representation Spiroscutalus Pilsbry, 1932 Xenothauma Fulton, 1896

Previously this genus was placed within the subfamily Bulimulinae.^[3]

Shells of Scutalus sp. on a Moche pot, 200 AD. Larco Museum Collection, Lima, Peru.

Species

Species in the genus Scutalus include:

• Scutalus baroni (Fulton, 1896)
• Scutalus broggii (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1949)
• Scutalus chango Araya & Breure, 2017
• Scutalus chiletensis Weyrauch, 1967^[2]
• Scutalus coraeformis (Pilsbry, 1897)
• Scutalus cousini (Jousseaume, 1887)
• Scutalus cretaceus (Pfeiffer, 1855)^[4] - images
• Scutalus grandiventris Weyrauch, 1960
• Scutalus latecolumellaris (Preston, 1909)
• Scutalus macedoi Weyrauch, 1967^[4]
• Scutalus mariopenai Breure & Mogollón Avilla, 2010^[4]
• Scutalus mutabilis (W.J. Broderip, 1832) (synonym: Bulinus mutabilis Broderip, 1832)
• Scutalus nivalis (d'Orbigny, 1835)
• Scutalus omissus Weyrauch, 1967
• Scutalus ortizpuentei Weyrauch, 1967^[4]
• Scutalus phaeocheilus (Haas, 1955)^[4]
• Scutalus pilosus Weyrauch, 1967
• Scutalus prometheus (J.C.H. Crosse, 1869) (synonym: Bulimus prometheus J.C.H. Crosse, 1869)
• Scutalus proteiformis (Dohrn, 1863)^[4]
• Scutalus proteus (W.J. Broderip, 1832) (synonym: Bulinus proteus Broderip, 1832) ^[5]
• Scutalus quechuarum (Crawford, 1939)
• Scutalus sanborni (Haas, 1947)
• Scutalus sordidus (Deshayes, 1838)
• Scutalus steerei (Pilsbry, 1900)
• Scutalus versicolor (Broderip, 1832)^[6]

Species brought into synonymy

• Scutalus pluto (J.C.H. Crosse, 1869) (synonym: Bulimus pluto Crosse, 1869): synonym of Bocourtia pluto (Crosse, 1869)
• Scutalus revinctus (Hupé, 1857): synonym of Bulimus revinctus Hupé, 1857
• Scutalus tupacii (d'Orbigny, 1835): synonym of Bocourtia tupacii (d'Orbigny, 1835)
• Scutalus weddellii (Hupé, 1857) (synonym: Bulimus weddellii Hupé, 1857): synonym of Bocourtia weddellii (Hupé, 1857)