Scutalus
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| Scutalus | |
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| 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 | |
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Scutalus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.[2]
Previously this genus was placed within the subfamily Bulimulinae.[3]
