Descriptions of new and little-known land snail taxa from Turkey, and establishment of a new genus (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Lauriidae, Enidae and Vitrinidae)
Author
Ruud, A. Bank
Author
Henk P. M. G Menkhorst
Author
Eike Neubert
text
Basteria
2016
80
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5
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.439745
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439745
Buliminus
H. Beck, 1837
Bulimina
Ehrenberg, 1831
: folio D [2, 4]. Type species (by monotypy):
Bulimus labrosus
Olivier, 1804
. Preoccupied by
Bulimina
d'Orbigny, 1826
(Foraminifera).
Buliminus
H. Beck, 1837
: 68
. Type species (by typification of replaced name):
Bulimus labrosus
Olivier, 1804
. Unjustified emendation of
Bulimina
Ehrenberg, 1831
, but placed on the “Official List of Generic Names in Zoology” by Opinion 2018 (2003: 63).
Petraeus
Albers, 1850
: 183
. Type species (by subsequent designation of E. von
Martens, 1860
: 233):
Bulimus labrosus
Olivier, 1804
.
Sesteria
Bourguignat, 1884
: 135
-136. Type species (by monotypy):
Sesteria gallandi
Bourguignat, 1884
.
Several
Buliminus
taxa have been reported from Turkey by
Gittenberger & Menkhorst (1991)
. These are
B
.
akkumensis
Gittenberger & Menkhorst, 1991
;
B
.
alepensis
(L. Pfeiffer, 1841)
;
B
.
carneus
(L. Pfeiffer, 1841)
;
B
.
corpulentus
Gittenberger & Menkhorst, 1991
; B.
exquisitus
Nägele, 1901;
B
.
labrosus labrosus
(Olivier
, 1801) and B.
labrosus
egregius
Nägele, 1902. We follow the opinion of Heller (1974, 1975), and consider
Buliminus
and
Pene
Pallary, 1929
, as separate genera. Consequently, the taxa mentioned by
Gittenberger & Menkhorst (1991)
under
Buliminus
(
Pene
) are not considered species of
Buliminus
. The epithet
corpulentus
has been replaced by
Gittenberger & Menkhorst (2006)
by
corpulentior
, as it was preoccupied by
Buliminus
cantori
var.
corpulenta
Gredler, 1884
. Furthermore,
Schütt & Şeşen (2001)
added another
Buliminus
species to the fauna of Turkey, by revealing that
Sesteria gallandi
Bourguignat, 1884
, belongs to
Buliminus
.
Bank & Neubert (2016: 11)
, in their revision of the Iranian
Enidae
, made remarks on several Turkish
Buliminus
taxa. They showed that
egregius
is best regarded a separate species (not a subspecies of
labrosus
), and that the
labrosus labrosus
shells from Turkey cannot be designated to
labrosus
. Bank & Neubert assumed that the latter taxon might be undescribed. A revision of the entire available material from Turkey revealed us, that the shells can be assigned to
B. corpulentior
, and that
B. corpulentior
has therefore a wider distribution and is more variable as previously thought. We therefore give an improved description of this little-known taxon.