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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Simpulopsis cumingi Pfeiffer, 1861
Figs 24iii-vi
, L5ii
Simpulopsis cumingi
Pfeiffer 1861a
[April]: 84;
Pfeiffer 1861b
[May]: 27, pl. 3 fig. 2;
Reeve 1862
[1860-1862]: pl. 1 fig. 5;
Pfeiffer 1868a
: 22;
Pilsbry 1899
: 220, pl. 63 figs 61-62;
Breure 1979
: 134.
Type locality.
"Mexico"
.
Label.
"Mexico"
, taxon label in
Pfeiffer's
handwriting. M.C. label style III.
Dimensions.
"Diam. maj. 20 1/2, alt. 12 mill.". Figured specimen H 14.1, D 19.0, W 3.4.
Type material.
NHMUK 1975486, lectotype and one paralectotype (Cuming coll.).
Remarks.
Pfeiffer did not state on how many specimens his description was based. Two specimens have been found in the collection, of which one is designated lectotype (
design. n.
) to fixate this poorly understood species. This taxon was compared to
Simpulopsis aenea
by
Pilsbry (1899)
, but has not been recognised by later authors.
Richardson's
references (
1995
: 363) to a citation for Venezuela [
Richards and Wagenaar Hummelinck 1940
: 7] and Brazil [
Jaeckel 1952
: 7] were in error; these authors mentioned "
Tomigerus cumingi
Pfeiffer" [
Odontostomidae
]. The current systematic position is according to
Thompson (2011
: 130), who expressed doubt about the locality from which it was reported.
Current systematic position.
Simpulopsidae
,
Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) cumingi
Pfeiffer, 1861.