The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda Author Cowie, Robert H. text Zootaxa 2015 3940 1 1 92 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1 5013eaff-bb37-4be3-a1ea-43c11d0cf5d1 1175-5326 288204 B5D45D1B-4B52-4F0B-8AF6-B587F8857475 virens Ampullaria virens Lamarck, 1822a: 179 . Type material —probable type material: MHNG-INVE-51293 (formerly MHNG 1093/96) (4 spms.) ( Y . Finet pers. comm. 22 August 2002 ; see also Mermod 1952 : 91). Type locality —[no locality given]. DistributionChina (Paetel 1888: 482), India ( Alderson 1925 : 74; Subba Rao 1989 : 60). Remarks . Recorded from Singapore by Alderson (1925: 74) but not by Ng et al . (2014). Subvariety of globosa subspecies carinata variety layardi Reeve, teste Nevill (1885: 3) . Valid species, teste G.B. Sowerby III (1910: 61) and Subba Rao (1989 : 60), in Pila , followed here.