Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva Author Breure, Abraham S. H. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands. & Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. E-mail: ashbreure @ gmail. com ashbreure@gmail.com text Revue suisse de Zoologie 2016 2016-03-31 123 1 57 103 journal article 197352 10.5281/zenodo.46290 d6b2bbe3-8eb3-4b57-8922-fdbf8d712d34 0035-418 46290 Pupa spixii major d’Orbigny, 1837 Fig. 122 Helix spixii [var.] major d’Orbigny, 1835 : 21 [nomen nudum]. Pupa spixii [var. α] major d’Orbigny, 1837 [1834-1847]: 320. – Breure & Ablettt, 2012: 25 , figs 22A-E, 22i. Pupa spixii (d’Orbigny) . – Gray, 1854: 23 [partim]. Spixia striata (Spix) . – Breure, 1975: 1158 [partim]. Type locality: “... pays habité par les Guarayos, au sein des forêts humides des frontières nord de la province de Chiquitos (république de Bolivia ), et dans la province de Corrientes (république Argentine), en un bois voisin de la rivière de Santa-Lucia, au lieu dit ‘Pasto reito’”; see Breure, 1973: 122 . Label: “ Corrientes ”, in Moricand’s handwriting. Dimensions: “Long. var. A, 35 millim., (...) Lat. var. A, 12 millim.”; figured specimen herein H 34.6, D 9.66, W 12.1 . Type material: MHNG-INVE-64662, 11 paralectotypes (ex d’Orbigny, Moricand coll.). Remarks: In d’Orbigny (1835) only the name of this taxon is mentioned, together with a locality, thus it was invalidly published. The first valid publication is in d’Orbigny, 1837 [1834-1847], where only a brief description was given but no figures of the ventral view of the shell (only a side view of a living snail). There is no explicit mentioning of “ var. major ” on the label, as d’Orbigny has done with varieties of other taxa; the only link are the localities quoted in his original paper. The lectotype is in NHMUK ( Breure & Ablett, 2012 ). Current systematic position: Odontostomidae , Spixia striata (Spix, 1827) .