Genus – Buliminella

Genus Buliminella Cushman, 1911

 
Buliminella Cushman, 1911, p. 88.

Description: Test composed of chambers triserially arranged, but in later development becoming involute and spirally coiled, the aperture being in the umbilicus thus formed; wall calcareous, perforate; aperture in the species but little twisted spirally, long and narrow, nearly vertical, in the closely spiral species becoming rounded in the middle of the concave umbilicus.

Type species is B. elegantissima (d’Orbigny)
 
 

Buliminella elegantissima (d’Orbigny, 1839)

 
Buliminella elegantissima (d’Orbigny, 1839), Cushman 1922, p. 108; Cushman and Todd, 1947, p. 1, pl. 3, fig. 1; Bandy, 1953, pl. 224, figs. 14 a–c; Bandy, Ingle and Resig, 1965,  McGann, 2007, p. 65, pl. 10, fig. S; Vázquez Riveiros and Patterson, 2008, Figs 10.2a–c

Distribution: B. elegantissima has a world-wide distribution. Bandy et al. (1962) and McGann (2007) reports this species to be locally abundant in polluted environments along the southern California coastline.  In Puget Sound this species is common in South Sound embayments and at the distal end of Hood Canal.

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