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
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1
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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].
Distribution
—
China
(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.