Bulimus edwardsi Morelet, 1863

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 : 53

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.392.6328

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scientific name

Bulimus edwardsi Morelet, 1863
status

 

Bulimus edwardsi Morelet, 1863 Figs 67C-D View Figure 67 , 67L View Figure 67 , L19vi View Figure L19

Bulimus edwardsi Morelet 1863: 182, pl. 9 fig. 1; Breure 1979: 88.

Bulimulus edwardsi ; Pilsbry 1897 [1897-1898]: 27, pl. 7 figs 11-13.

Type locality.

[Peru, Dept. Huancavelica] "le type (...) Huancabelica; la variété, (...) vallée de Huanta" [Dept. Ayacucho].

Label.

”Pérou Huanta", taxon label ( ”var.”) in Morelet’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Longit. 29; diam. 12 mill."; figured specimen herein H 25.4, D 13.3, W 5.7.

Type material.

NHMUK 1893.2.4.177-178, two syntypes (Morelet coll.).

Remarks.

Morelet considered this to be a variable taxon and distinguished explicitly a smaller variety "Testa minor, (...)". Crawford (1939: 329) compared the two specimens in NHMUK to Scutalus bicolor (Sowerby, 1835), and expressed doubts whether the variety is identical to typical edwardsi; the typical form is considered by him as a synonym of Scutalus culmineus ( d’Orbigny, 1835). With the current material at hand we prefer to treat Morelet’s material as a geographical form. Weyrauch (1967a: 386) considers Morelet’s taxon as a subspecies of Scutalus culmineus . This species is now placed in the genus Kuschelenia Hylton Scott, 1951.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) culmineus edwardsi (Morelet, 1863) (comb. n.).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Bulimulidae

Genus

Bulimus

Loc

Bulimus edwardsi Morelet, 1863

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D. 2014
2014
Loc

Bulimus edwardsi

Morelet 1863
1863