Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London
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Breure, Abraham S. H.
Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, P. O. Box 9517, Leiden, the Netherlands
bbreure@xs4all.nl
Author
Ablett, Jonathan D.
Natural History Museum, Division of Higher Invertebrates, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK
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Bulimus fuligineus Pfeiffer, 1853
Figs 15A, 15i
Bulimus fuligineus
Pfeiffer 1853b
: 301; Pfeiffer 1854, in
Kuester
and Pfeiffer 1840-1865
: 157, pl. 48 figs 5-6.
Bulimus fuligineus
var.
β
Pfeiffer 1859: 363.
Placostylus (Santacharis) fuligineus
(Pfeiffer);
Solem 1959
: 134, pl. 8 figs 3, 6.
Type locality.
[Vanuatu] "Novis Hebridis".
Label.
"New Hebrides". "Isle of Aneiteum"; taxon labels in
Pfeiffer's
handwriting. M.C. label style IV.
Dimensions.
"Long. 38, diam. 16 mill."; lectotype H 39.4, D 19.2, W 4.6.
Type material.
NHMUK 1975226, lectotype and two paralectotypes; 20100650, three paralectotypes of the varietal form, all Macgillivray leg. (Cuming coll.).
Remarks.
Two lots, each consisting of three specimens proved to be present, one corresponding to the variety recognized by Pfeiffer (1859). All material was taken at Vanuatu, Prov. Tafea, Anatom (of which Anaiteum and Aneityum are a few of the variant names), according to the label glued inside the aperture of one of the specimens and the label of the variety lot. The specimen figured by Pfeiffer (1854: pl. 48 figs 5-6) is now seclected lectotype (design. n.).
Current
systematic position.
Bothriembryontidae,
Santacharis fuligineus
(Pfeiffer, 1853).