Bulimus pliculatus Pfeiffer, 1857

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 : 126

Bulimus pliculatus Pfeiffer, 1857 Figs 61E-F , L47ii

Bulimus pliculatus Pfeiffer 1857d: 390; Pfeiffer 1859b: 488.

Bulimus plicatulus Pfeiffer and Clessin 1881: 244 (emendation); Breure 1979: 64.

Bulimulus plicatulus ; Breure 1978: 147 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

”Bolivia”.

Label.

”Bolivia”, taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style IV.

Dimensions.

"Long. 23, diam. 11 1/3 mill."; figured specimen herein H 23.0, D 12.02, W 7.0.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975390, lectotype; 1975391, two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

This taxon, which has mostly been cited under the unjustified emendated name, was hitherto unfigured.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bulimulus pliculatus (Pfeiffer, 1857).

Figures

Figure 61. Bulimulus species. A-B Bulimulus juvenilis (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHMUK 1975161 (H = 19.5) C-D Bulimulus tenuissimus (d'Orbigny, 1835), syntype NHMUK 1854.12.4.163 (H = 19.1) E-F Bulimulus pliculatus (Pfeiffer, 1857), lectotype NHMUK 1975390 (H = 23.0) G-H Bulimulus haplochrous (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHMUK 1975405 (H = 28.6). All enlarged.

Figure L 47. Labels. i Bulimulus (Drymaeus) plicatoliratus Da Costa, 1898 ii Bulimus pliculatus Pfeiffer, 1857 iii Helix poecila d'Orbigny, 1835.