Annotated type catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London
Author
Breure, Abraham S. H.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 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 gelidus Reeve, 1849
Figs 62C-D
, L25ii
Bulimus gelidus
Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]
: pl. 76 fig. 555;
Breure 1978
: 142;
Breure 1979
: 62 (lectotype designation);
Miquel 1991
: 98, fig. 25.
Bulimulus gelidus
;
Breure 2008
: 245, figs 6-7 [not 8]; see remarks.
Type locality.
"Central America".
Label.
"C. America". M.C. label style I, V.
Dimensions.
Not given; figured specimen herein H 32.5, D 15.0, W 7.7.
Type material.
NHMUK 1975402, lectotype (Cuming coll.).
Remarks.
On the back of the cardboard a handwriting in pencil has noted "seems to be the same as monte-vidensis Pfr.".
Miquel (1991)
placed this taxon is the synonymy of
Syphalomphix
bonariensis
Rafinesque, 1833, a species from Argentina. However, it must be noted that most
Bulimulus
species are very similar and often hard to tell apart. Reconsidering the identification made in
Breure (2008)
, we now disagree with him, as the Ecuadorian shells have different dimensions, and the last whorl is less globose than in the lectotype of
Bulimus gelidus
. The locality on the label may be erroneous, and
Reeve's
taxon is herein considered as nomen inquirendum.
Current systematic position.
Bulimulidae
,
Bulimulus
. Nomen inquirendum.