The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda
Author
Cowie, Robert H.
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Zootaxa
2015
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1
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paludinoides
Ampullaria paludinoides
Cristofori & Jan, 1832
. See
Cowie & Thiengo (2003: 80)
.
Additional remarks
. American,
teste
Cristofori & Jan (1832: 7)
,
Philippi (1852b: 24)
and
Paetel (1873: 65)
.
Philippi (1852a: 27)
gave
India
, South
America
and
Mexico
as localities based on museum material identified as this species, but considered the Indian localities more likely. Martens (1857: 213) considered it African.
Schaufuss (1869: 55)
listed it from “
Ind
. or.” and
Paetel (1887: 480)
from “Moulmein” [
Burma
]. Hanley & Theobald (1874: 47) considered the description of Cristofori & Jan to be so inadequate that their species should be ignored. So they treated it as of
Philippi (1852a: 27, pl. 7, fig. 4)
and said that the shell they themselves figured was not likely to be the species described by Christofori and Jan. It was considered Indian by
Nevill (1877: 7–9)
, who gave the form figured by Hanley & Theobald (1874, pl. 114, fig. 5) as
paludinoides
of Philippi the new name
expansa
. Treated as an Old World species by Kobelt (1912b: 102), although
Prashad (1925: 81)
considered Kobelt’s figure (pl. 43, fig. 2) to be of a shell of
expansa
Nevill. G.B. Sowerby III (1910: 62) also treated it as of Philippi, referencing Cristofori and Jan and considering it a variety of
virens
Lamarck.
Prashad (1923: 590)
also recomended that
paludinoides
Cristofori & Jan
be ignored.
Alderson (1925: 75)
wrote: “The name is one of those elusive ghosts that haunt the nomenclature of the genus” but treated it as a variety of
conica
Wood. Considered
an Old World species by
Cowie & Thiengo (2003: 80)
, but this conclusion is hardly definitive.
planorboides
Ampullaria planorboides
Cristofori & Jan, 1832
. See
Cowie & Thiengo (2003: 79)
.