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Bottle bulla

Bulla ampulla Linnaeus, 1758

Status not recordedsnails and slugs

The bottle bulla (Bulla ampulla) is a species in the family Bullidae.

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Quick facts about the bottle bulla

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the bottle bulla live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the bottle bulla as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Cyprus

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the bottle bulla endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the bottle bulla classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumMollusca
  3. classGastropoda
  4. familyBullidae
  5. genusBulla
  6. SpeciesBulla ampulla Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms Bulla ampulla mozambicensis, Bulla ampulla var. mozambicensis, Bulla bifasciata, Bulla columellaris, Bulla columellaris var. bifasciata, Bulla columellaris var. vermiculata, Bulla delorti, Bulla trifasciata, Bulla villosa, Bullaria ampulla, Quibulla selina

Other names and names in other languages (16)
  • Ampulle bubbleEnglish
  • Ampulle bullaEnglish
  • Flask bubble snailEnglish
  • Mottled bubble snailEnglish
  • dutenka baňatáCzech
  • AmpullenschneckeGerman
  • Bulle ampouleFrench
  • Bulla ampollaItalian
  • タイワンナツメガイJapanese
  • Большая буллаRussian
  • buľa tichomorskáSlovak
  • หอยไข่นกกระทาThai
  • 台灣棗螺Chinese
  • Ampullen-BlasenschneckeGerman
  • タイワンナツメJapanese
  • 臺灣棗螺Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the bottle bulla

Other species in the same genus Bulla.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the bottle bulla an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the bottle bulla as introduced in 1 country: Cyprus, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Bottle bulla (Bulla ampulla). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/bottle-bulla

MLA

“Bottle bulla (Bulla ampulla).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/bottle-bulla.

BibTeX
@misc{bottle_bulla_2026,
  title = {Bottle bulla (Bulla ampulla)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/bottle-bulla},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}