Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Naticoidea > Family Naticidae > Subfamily Polinicinae > Genus Bulbus

Bulbus smithii T. Brown, 1839

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bulbus*	T. Brown, 1839	accepted genus name
*Acrybia*	H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853	synonym
*Lunatia (Acrybia)*	H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853	synonym

Species group names

*Acrybia glacialis*	Thorson, 1951	synonym
*Bulbus flavus*	(A. Gould, 1840)	synonym
*Natica aperta*	Lovén, 1846	synonym
*Natica flava*	A. Gould, 1840	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ウスカワクリガイ

Literature

original description	Smith, J. (1839). On the last changes in the relative levels of the land and sea in the British Islands. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 8: 49-113, pl. 1-2. Edinburgh.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
additional source	Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011). Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.
additional source	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bulbus smithii T. Brown, 1839. 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:140524