Eeocee dings of 
the United States 
National Museum 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION - WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Volume 113 1962 Number 3462 
NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN SPECIES OF SOUTH AND 
CENTRAL AMERICAN LAND SNAILS 
(BULIMULIDAE) 
By Juan Jost Paropiz! 
The present paper describes new species of land shells of the family 
Bulimulidae from South America, and a few from Central America, 
on the basis of specimens in the collection of the United States Na- 
tional Museum; other little-known species are also discussed. The 
study was accomplished under a fellowship granted to the writer by 
the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, of New York, 
for researches on Neotropical mollusks. About a thousand South 
American species of the family were examined, many of which may 
need to be reclassified into the different, and at present numerous, 
genera and subgenera. This reclassification will be the subject of a 
future, more extensive, and comprehensive paper; at this time only 
some of the more immediately interesting observations are given. 
Forty-six species or subspecies are discussed in this paper; of these, 
the following eight are described as new: 
Bulimulus corderoi, from Uruguay 
Bulimulus moet, from Argentina 
1 Curator of Invertebrates, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa 
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