Bulimus praetextus 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 : 128

Bulimus praetextus Reeve, 1849 Figs 43G-I , L48iii

Bulimus praetextus Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 71 fig. 515; Reeve 1850: 98; Pilsbry 1898 [1897-1898]: 238, pl. 44 fig. 94.

Type locality.

"Andes of Caxamarca, Peru".

Label.

”Peru”. M.C. label style I.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 39.0, D 15.9, W 8.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 198340, lectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Reeve did not mention on how many specimens his description was based. The specimen matches his figure and is here selected as lectotype (design. n.). The current systematic position follows Richardson (1995).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Drymaeus) praetextus (Reeve, 1849).

Figures

Figure 43. Drymaeus species. A-C Drymaeus (Drymaeus) cuzcoensis (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975453 (H = 36.6) D-F Drymaeus (Drymaeus) clathratus (Pfeiffer, 1858), lectotype NHMUK 1975449 (H = 30.0) G-I Drymaeus (Drymaeus) praetextus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 198340 (H = 39.0) J-L Drymaeus (Drymaeus) alabastrinus da Costa, 1906, holotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.16 (H = 33.0). All enlarged.

Figure L 48. Labels. i Helix polymorpha d'Orbigny, 1835 ii Drymaeus ponsonbyi da Costa, 1907 iii Bulimus praetextus Reeve, 1849 iv Drymaeus prestoni da Costa, 1906 v Bulimus primula Reeve, 1848 vi Bulinus pruinosus Sowerby I, 1833 vii Bulimus protractus Pfeiffer, 1855.