Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Bulla punctulata A. Adams, 1850

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Cephalaspidea

Superfamily
Bulloidea

Family
Bullidae

Genus
Bulla

Species
punctulata

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Bulla rufolabris A. Adams, 1850, Bulla aspersa A. Adams, 1850, Bulla punctata A. Adams, 1850 (Mispelling of B. punctulata; and junior homonym of Bulla punctata Schröter, 1804), Bulla quoyi Gray in A. Adams, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of Bulla quoyi Gray, 1843), Bulla rufolabris A. Adams, 1850, fide (Horton et al., 2021 & Appeltans et al., 2010)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Bulla punctulata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14830. Accessed 6 November 2026.