Bulimus filaris Pfeiffer, 1853

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 : 60

Bulimus filaris Pfeiffer, 1853 Figs 70C-D , 70L , L23ii

Bulimus filaris Pfeiffer 1853d: 653; Pfeiffer 1854e: 50; Breure 1979: 86.

Type locality.

Not given.

Label.

No locality given, taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style I.

Dimensions.

"Long 26, diam. 12 mill."; figured specimen herein H 25.1, D 12.3, W 5.6.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975569, two syntypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Pfeiffer did not state on how many specimens his description was based. On the label a note is added by a later hand "same as one of / Morelet"; it is unclear to us to what taxon this refers. The current systematic position at the species level follows Richardson (1995).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) filaris (Pfeiffer, 1853) (comb. n.).

Figures

Figure 70. Kuschelenia species. A-B, K Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) aquilus (Reeve, 1848), lectotype NHMUK 1975376 (H = 27.1) C-D, L Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) filaris (Pfeiffer, 1853), syntype NHMUK 1975569 (H = 25.1) E-F, M Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) anthisanensis (Pfeiffer, 1853), lectotype of Bulimus subfasciatus Pfeiffer, 1853 NHMUK 1975368 (H = 31.0) G-H Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) nucinus (Reeve, 1850), lectotype NHMUK 1975379 (H = 36.8) I-J Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) petiti (Pfeiffer, 1846), lectotype NHMUK 1975374 (H = 36.0). All enlarged

Figure L 23. Labels. i Bulimus fidustus Reeve, 1849 ii Bulimus filaris Pfeiffer, 1853 iii Bulimus (Liostracus) flavidulus E. A. Smith, 1877 iv Bulimus flexilabris Pfeiffer, 1853 v Bulimus flexuosus Pfeiffer, 1853.