Bulimus chimborasensis Reeve, 1848

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 : 36

Bulimus chimborasensis Reeve, 1848 Figs 38A-C , L12v

Bulimus chimborasensis Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 44 fig. 275.

Drymaeus chimborasensis ; Pilsbry 1898 [1897-1898]: 261, pl. 40 fig. 1; Linares and Vera 2012: 183.

Drymaeus (Drymaeus) chimborasensis ; Breure 1979: 107; Breure and Borrero 2008: 20.

Type locality.

"Chimborazo, Columbia, New Granada".

Label.

”Chimborazo”. M.C. label style IV, V.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 39.7, D 15.0, W 7.0.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975460, three syntypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Reeve described this species from "Mus. Dennison", and said it was identical to Bulimus decoratus Lea, 1838 (not Férussac, 1821); he referred to Lea’s figure (pl. 23 fig. 8). The specimens found correspond to Reeve’s description, but none can be matched to the shell figured on his plate 44.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Drymaeus) chimborasensis (Reeve, 1848).

Figures

Figure 38. Drymaeus species. A-C Drymaeus (Drymaeus) chimborasensis (Reeve, 1848), syntype NHMUK 1975460 (H = 39.7) D-F Drymaeus (Drymaeus) fabrefactus (Reeve, 1848), lectotype NHMUK 1975531 (H = 38.5) G-I Drymaeus (Drymaeus) canaliculatus (Pfeiffer, 1845), lectotype NHMUK 1975514 (H = 36.0) J-L Drymaeus (Drymaeus) murrinus (Reeve, 1848), lectotype NHMUK 1975213 (H = 37.1). All enlarged.

Figure L 12. Labels. i Bulimus cercicola Morelet, 1863 ii Bulimus chamaeleon Pfeiffer, 1855 iii Otostomus championi Martens, 1893 iv Bulimus chemnitzioides Forbes, 1850 v Bulimus chimborasensis Reeve, 1848 vi Drymaeus chiriquiensis da Costa, 1901 vii Bulimus cinereus Reeve, 1849.