Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London
Author
Breure, Abraham S. H.
Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, 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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Buliminus nuptialis Melvill and Ponsonby, 1894
Figs 6D-F, 6iii
Buliminus nuptialis
Melvill and Ponsonby 1894
: 92, pl. 1 fig. 5.
Prestonella nuptialis
(Melvill and Ponsonby);
Herbert 2007
: 11, fig. 12-13.
Type locality.
[South Africa, Eastern Cape] "Craigie Burn, Somerset East (
Mrs. Mary Layard Barber
)".
Label.
"Craigie Burn, Somerset / East, S. Africa".
Dimensions.
"Long. 15, lat. 8.50 mill."; holotype H 14.6, D 9.82, W 4.4.
Type material.
NHMUK 1905.1.26.29, holotype, Mrs. Mary Layard Barber (
nee
Bowker) (ex E.L. Layard ex Ponsonby).
Remarks.
The data on the collector and the way this specimen has found its way to the NHMUK collection have been taken from
Herbert (2007)
. The size of the specimen was erroneously given as "length 11.5 mm".
Current systematic position.
Bothriembryontidae,
Prestonella nuptialis
(Melvill and Ponsonby, 1894).