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

Bulla occidentalis A. Adams, 1850

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bulla*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Adams, A. (1850). Monograph of the family Bullidae. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 2 (11): 553-608, pls 119-125. London, privately published.
basis of record	Malaquias, M. A. E.; Reid, D. G. (2008). Systematic revision of the living species of Bullidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a molecular phylogenetic analysis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 153(3): 453-543.
basis of record	Adams, A. (1850). Monograph of the family Bullidae. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 2 (11): 553-608, pls 119-125. London, privately published.
additional source	Radwin, G. E. (1969). A Recent molluscan fauna from the Caribbean Coast of southeastern Panama. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 15: 229-236.
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. Bulla occidentalis A. Adams, 1850. 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:420521