Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Cephalaspidea > Superfamily Haminoeoidea > Family Haminoeidae > Genus Aliculastrum

Aliculastrum cylindricum (Helbling, 1779)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Bulla Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Aliculastrum*	Pilsbry, 1896	accepted genus name
*Atys (Aliculastrum)*	Pilsbry, 1896	synonym

Species group names

*Atys cylindricus*	(Helbling, 1779)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Ghost Paper Bubble Snail sources: Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.

Japanese: カイコガイ

Literature

basis of record	Too, C. C.; Carlson, C.; Hoff, P. J.; Malaquias, M. A. E. (2014). Diversity and systematics of Haminoeidae gastropods (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) in the tropical West Pacific Ocean: new data on the genera Aliculastrum, Atys, Diniatys and Liloa. Zootaxa. 3794 (3): 355–392.
additional source	Chaban E.M. (2016). Heterobranch mollusks of the orders Acteonoidea and Cephalaspidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) of Vietnam: annotated check-list with illustrations of some species. In: A. V. Adrianov & K. A. Lutaenko (eds), Biodiversity of the western part of the South China Sea: 415-448. Vladivostok, Dalnauka.
additional source	Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Aliculastrum cylindricum (Helbling, 1779). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:718605