Bulimus catharinae Pfeiffer, 1857

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2012, Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 182, pp. 1-70 : 7

Bulimus catharinae Pfeiffer, 1857 Figs 23A-B, 23i

Bulimus catharinae Pfeiffer 1857: 389; Breure 1974: 113.

Cyclodontina (Cyclodontina) fusiformis (Menke); Breure and Schouten 1985: 6, pl. 1 figs 1-2 (lectotype designation).

Cyclodontina catharinae (Pfeiffer); Simone 2006: 165, fig. 567.

Type locality.

"St. Catherine’s, Brazil".

Label.

"St Catherines Brazil"; taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"23-25, 7 1/2-8 mill."; specimen figured herein H 24.4, D 7.5, W 8.1.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975261, lectotype and two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Simone revalidated this taxon without providing further discussion; however, we follow here the synonymization of Breure and Schouten (1985).

Current systematic position.

Odontostomidae , Cyclodontina fusiformis (Menke, 1828).

Figures

Figure 23. A-B, i Cyclodontina fusiformis (Menke, 1828), lectotype of Bulimus catharinae Pfeiffer, 1857 NHM 1975261 (H = 24.4) C-D, ii Moricandia tolerata (Fulton, 1903), holotype NHM 1903.11.20.34 (H = 31.9) E-F, iii Bahiensis fuscagula (d'Orbigny, 1837), lectotype NHM 1854.12.4.141 (H = 30).