Annotated type catalogue of the Megaspiridae, Orthalicidae, and Simpulopsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London
Author
Breure, Abraham S. H.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, Leiden, the Netherlands
Author
Ablett, Jonathan D.
Natural History Museum, Division of Higher Invertebrates, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK
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Bulimus achilles Pfeiffer, 1853
Figs 1i-ii
, L1i
Bulimus achilles
Pfeiffer 1853b
: 378;
Pfeiffer 1854b
: 137; Pfeiffer 1855 in
Kuester
and Pfeiffer 1840-1865
: 247, pl. 66 fig. 9;
Breure 1979
: 44.
Thaumastus (Thaumastus) taunaisii achilles
;
Breure 1978
: 32 (lectotype designation).
Type locality.
[Brazil] "in ripis fluvii Amazonum".
Label.
"Banks of Amazon", taxon label in
Pfeiffer's
handwriting. M.C. label style IV.
Dimensions.
"Long. 57, diam. 25 mill.". Figured specimen H 58.0, D 25.5, W 6.4.
Type material.
NHMUK 1975268, lectotype, 1975269, 2 paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).
Remarks.
Pfeiffer did not state on how many specimens his description was based, but the species was described from the Cuming collection. The original label also mentions "between B. Largilliertii / + taunasii"; a label in a second (later?) hand has added "Prov. S. Paulo, Brazil / (Nehring)".The current systematic position is according to
Richardson (1995
: 384).
Current systematic position.
Megaspiridae
,
Thaumastus taunaisii
(
Ferussac
, 1822).