Bulimus bolivianus Pfeiffer, 1846

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 : 27-28

Bulimus bolivianus Pfeiffer, 1846 Figs 42D-F , L9iv

Bulimus bolivianus Pfeiffer 1846a: 34; Pfeiffer 1848b: 105; Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 81 fig. 599.

Drymaeus bolivianus ; Pilsbry 1898 [1897-1898]: 244, pl. 43 fig. 66.

Drymaeus (Drymaeus) bolivianus ; Breure 1979: 107 (lectotype designation); Breure and Eskens 1981: 12.

Type locality.

[Venezuela] "Merida, Andes of Bolivia".

Label.

”Merida”, taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style IV.

Dimensions.

"Long. 33, diam. 13 mill."; figured specimen herein H 33, D 13.7, W 7.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975444, lectotype; 1975445, one paralectotype (Cuming coll.); see remarks.

Remarks.

Pfeiffer did not state on how many specimens his description was based; the lot found contains three specimens. The smallest shell of the lot is a juvenile specimen not belonging to this species, and is here excluded from the type material. The locality as originally stated by Pfeiffer seems in error as there is no place with that name in Bolivia; the taxon is now tentatively assigned to the Venezuelan mala cofauna. Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 44 fig. 281 figured a specimen from "Mus. Dennison", which he mistakenly held for Bulimus bolivianus . Later he corrected his mistake on pl. 81, stating "The shell here represented is the original type of the species described by Dr. Pfeiffer. To that which I have mistaken for it at Pl. XLIV Sp. 281, the name B. annulatus may be given". The current systematic position follows Richardson (1995: 105).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Drymaeus) bolivianus (Pfeiffer, 1846).

Figures

Figure 42. Drymaeus species. A-C Drymaeus (Drymaeus) bogotensis (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHMUK 1975191 (H = 37.4) D-F Drymaeus (Drymaeus) bolivianus (Pfeiffer, 1846), lectotype NHMUK 1975444 (H = 33.0) G-I Drymaeus (Drymaeus) cuticula (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHMUK 1975451 (H = 27.5) J-L Drymaeus (Drymaeus) chiriquensis da Costa, 1901 (H = 29.1). All enlarged.

Figure L 9. Labels. i Bulinus bicolor Sowerby I, 1835 ii Bulimus binneayanus Pfeiffer, 1857 iii Bulimus bogotensis Pfeiffer, 1855 iv Bulimus bolivianus Pfeiffer, 1846 v Drymaeus boucardi da Costa, 1907 vi Bulimus bourcieri Pfeiffer, 1853 vii Bulimulus (Drymaeus) broadwayi E. A. Smith, 1896.