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 edwardsi Morelet, 1863
Figs 67C-D
, 67L
, L19vi
Bulimus edwardsi
Morelet 1863
: 182, pl. 9 fig. 1;
Breure 1979
: 88.
Bulimulus edwardsi
;
Pilsbry 1897 [1897-1898]
: 27, pl. 7 figs 11-13.
Type locality.
[Peru, Dept. Huancavelica] "le type (...) Huancabelica; la
variete
, (...)
vallee
de Huanta" [Dept. Ayacucho].
Label.
"Perou
Huanta", taxon label (
"var."
) in
Morelet's
handwriting.
Dimensions.
"Longit. 29; diam. 12 mill."; figured specimen herein H 25.4, D 13.3, W 5.7.
Type material.
NHMUK 1893.2.4.177-178, two syntypes (Morelet coll.).
Remarks.
Morelet considered this to be a variable taxon and distinguished explicitly a smaller variety "Testa minor, (...)".
Crawford (1939
: 329) compared the two specimens in NHMUK to
Scutalus bicolor
(Sowerby, 1835), and expressed doubts whether the variety is identical to typical
edwardsi
; the typical form is considered by him as a synonym of
Scutalus culmineus
(
d'Orbigny
, 1835). With the current material at hand we prefer to treat
Morelet's
material as a geographical form.
Weyrauch (1967a
: 386) considers
Morelet's
taxon as a subspecies of
Scutalus culmineus
. This species is now placed in the genus
Kuschelenia
Hylton Scott, 1951.
Current systematic position.
Bulimulidae
,
Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) culmineus edwardsi
(Morelet, 1863) (
comb. n.
).