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 mejillonensis Pfeiffer, 1857
Figs 8C
, L37iii
Bulimus mejillonensis
Pfeiffer in
Pfeiffer and Dunker 1857
: 230;
Breure 1979
: 56.
Bostryx mejillonensis
;
Breure 1978
: 102 (lectotype designation).
Type locality.
[Chile] "Mejillones in deserto Atacamensi".
Label.
"Desert of Atacama", taxon label in
Pfeiffer's
handwriting. M.C. label style III.
Dimensions.
"Long. 25, diam. 12 mill."; figured specimen herein H 24.1, D 12.8, W 6.2.
Type material.
NHMUK 1975322, lectotype; 1975323, two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).
Remarks.
Pfeiffer did not state on how many specimens his description was based. The current systematic position follows
Richardson (1995)
.
Current systematic position.
Bulimulidae
,
Bostryx mejillonensis
(Pfeiffer, 1857).