Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Pteropoda > Suborder Euthecosomata > Superfamily Limacinoidea > Family Limacinidae > Genus Limacina

Limacina bulimoides (A. d'Orbigny, 1835)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Limacina*	Bosc, 1817	accepted genus name
*Heterofusus*	J. Fleming, 1823	synonym
*Scaea*	R. A. Philippi, 1844	synonym
*Spiratella*	Blainville, 1817	synonym
*Spirialis*	Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840	synonym

Species group names

*Atlanta bulimoides*	A. d'Orbigny, 1835	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: bulimoid pteropod sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

Japanese: セイタカウキマイマイ

Literature

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	Janssen, A. W.; Bush, S. L. & Bednaršek, N. (2019). The shelled pteropods of the northeast Pacific Ocean (Mollusca: Heterobranchia, Pteropoda). Zoosymposia. 13: 305-346.
additional source	van der Spoel, S. (1967). Euthecosomata, a group with remarkable developmental stages (Gastropoda, Pteropoda). Gorinchem: Noorduijn en Zoon. 378 pp. [20 November 1967].
additional source	Janssen, A. W. (2007). Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from the gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea and gulf of Aden (Late Holocene-Recent). The Veliger. 49 (3): 140-195.
additional source	Janssen, A. W. (2012). Early Pliocene heteropods and pteropods (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from Le Puget-sur-Argens (Var), France. Cainozoic Research. 9 (2): 145-187.
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Janssen, A.W. (2012). Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. Bollettino Malacologico. 48 (suplemento 9): 1-105.
additional source	Janssen, A. W. (1998). Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata) from the Pliocene Bowden beds, Jamaica. Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology. 35 (1-4): 95-111.
additional source	Janssen, A.W. (2007). Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda: Pterotracheoidea, Janthinoidea, Thecosomata and Gymnosomata) from the Pliocene of Pangasinan (Luzon, Philippines). Scripta Geologica. 135: 29-177.
additional source	Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limacina bulimoides (A. d'Orbigny, 1835). 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:140222