Meladomus bloyeti, Bourguignat, 1889

Cowie, Robert H. & Héros, Virginie, 2012, Annotated catalogue of the types of Ampullariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with lectotype designations, Zoosystema 34 (4), pp. 793-824 : 797

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n4a8

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039D87EF-3955-FFB5-FD6D-52D0FCC45161

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scientific name

Meladomus bloyeti
status

 

bloyeti Bourguignat, 1889 View in CoL , Meladomus

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Meladomus bloyeti Bourguignat, 1889: 171 View in CoL .

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Lanistes View in CoL . Valid species.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype (here designated) MNHN 4501 About MNHN .

TYPE LOCALITY. — “Cours d’eau aux environs de Kondoa (Ousaghara)” [ Tanzania].

REMARKS

The shell is close to the dimensions given in the original description and the label is in Bourguignat’s hand, written with his characteristic purplish ink. We consider this sufficient justification to designate this specimen as the lectotype to stabilise the name.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Architaenioglossa

Family

Ampullariidae

Genus

Meladomus

Loc

Meladomus bloyeti

Cowie, Robert H. & Héros, Virginie 2012
2012
Loc

Meladomus bloyeti

BOURGUIGNAT J. R. 1889: 171
1889
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