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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Bostryx metagyra Pilsbry & Olsson, 1949
Figs 1K
, L37v
Bostryx metagyra
Pilsbry and Olsson 1949: 9, fig. 12;
Baker 1963
: 229;
Neubert and Janssen 2004
: 217, pl. 7 fig. 83;
Breure 2011
: 35.
Type locality.
"Peru"
.
Label.
"without locality, from the original series".
Dimensions.
"Height 8.2 mm., diameter 8.6 mm."; figured specimen herein H 7.2, D 7.6, W 4.9.
Type material.
NHMUK 20100630, four probable paratypes (ex Weyrauch).
Remarks.
Pilsbry and Olsson (1949: 10) remarked "paratypes 184900 ANSP and in Museo Historia Natural, Lima, where many specimens were preserved without locality". As it is known that Weyrauch worked in the Lima museum during many years in the 1940s-1950s (
Barbosa et al. 2008
), and Weyrauch exchanged many shells, these specimens are considered probable paratypes. Of the supposedly five specimens originally sent by Weyrauch, one is missing and two are broken.
Current systematic position.
Bulimulidae
,
Bostryx metagyra
Pilsbry & Olsson, 1949.