Annotated type catalogue of the Megaspiridae, Orthalicidae, and Simpulopsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London
Author
Breure, Abraham S. H.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, Leiden, the Netherlands
Author
Ablett, Jonathan D.
Natural History Museum, Division of Higher Invertebrates, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK
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Bulimus simulus Morelet, 1851
Figs 26iv-vi
, L17ii
Bulimus simulus
Morelet 1851
: 11; Pfeiffer 1853d: 383;
Breure 1979
: 134.
Type locality.
[Guatemala] "sylvas Petenensis".
Label.
"foret
de Dolores", taxon label in
Morelet's
handwriting.
Dimensions.
"Longit. 11 - Diam. 9 [mm]". Figured specimen H 8.26, D 6.79, W 4.3.
Type material.
NHMUK 1893.2.4.1128-1129, two syntypes (Morelet coll.).
Remarks.
Morelet did not state on how many specimens his description was based. On the board on which the labels are glued has been written in a later hand "Type largest / Test. Noviss. No. 101". The locality on the label probably refers to the village of Dolores,
Peten
, Guatemala, which is thus the exact type locality. The current systematic position follows
Thompson (2011
: 130).
Current systematic position.
Simpulopsidae
,
Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) simula
(Morelet, 1851).