BULLA, in zoology, a genus belonging to the order of vermes testaceæ. It is an animal of the snail-kind: The shell consists of one valve, convoluted, and without any prickles; the aperture is narrowish, oblong, longitudinal, and entire at the base; the columella is smooth and oblique. There are twenty-three species, most of them natives of the Asiatic and Atlantic oceans.
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