Bulinus
Translingual
Etymology
New Latin, from bulla (“anything round; boss, knob”) + -inus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix).
Proper noun
Bulinus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Planorbidae – small sinistral freshwater pulmonate snails including a number that are intermediate hosts of flukes of domestic animals.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Gastropoda - class ; Basommatophora - order ; Planorbidae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Bulinus africanus, Bulinus forskalii, Bulinus reticulatus, Bulinus tropicus, Bulinus truncatus - species
References
Bulinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Bulinus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.