Bulimus altoperuvianus Reeve, 1849

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2014, Annotated type catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 392, pp. 1-367 : 15

Bulimus altoperuvianus Reeve, 1849 Figs 56A-C , L4i

Bulimus altoperuvianus Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 72 figs 521a-b; Breure 1979: 100.

Neopetraeus altoperuvianus ; Pilsbry 1898 [1897-1898]: 173, pl. 32 figs 30-31; Breure 1978: 209 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

[Peru, Dept. Amazonas] "Chachapoyas, Alto-Peru".

Label.

"Province of Caxamarca [Dept. Cajamarca], Peru". M.C. label style IV, V.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 46.5, D 25.4, W 7.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975437, lectotype; 1975438, one paralectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The lectotype corresponds to Reeve’s fig. 521a, while fig. 521b corresponds to the paralectotype.

Current systematic position.

Bulimuludae , Neopetraeus altoperuvianus (Reeve, 1849).

Figures

Figure 56. Neopetraeus species. A-C Neopetraeus altoperuvianus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975437 (H = 46.5) D-F Neopetraeus atahualpa (Dohrn, 1863), possible syntype NHMUK 1975436 (H = 38.5) G-I Neopetraeus decussatus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975180 (H = 37.7) J-L Neopetraeus patasensis (Pfeiffer, 1858), lectotype NHMUK 1975439 (H = 46.8). All enlarged.

Figure L 4. Labels. i Bulimus altoperuvianus Reeve, 1849 ii Bulimus amandus Pfeiffer, 1855 iii Bulimus ambustus Reeve, 1849 iv Bulimus andicola Pfeiffer, 1847 v Bulimus andoicus Morelet, 1863 vi Drymaeus angustus da Costa, 1906.