Bulimulus atahualpa Dohrn, 1863

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 : 19

Bulimulus atahualpa Dohrn, 1863 Figs 56D-F , L6iv-v

Bulimulus atahualpa Dohrn 1863: 153.

Neopetraeus atahualpa ; Breure 1979: 100.

Type locality.

Not given.

Label.

”Huallaga”, "Province of / Patas, Andes of Peru" [see remarks]. M.C. label style IV.

Dimensions.

"Long 43, lat 21 (..) mill." (largest specimen); figured specimen herein H 38.5, D 26.4, W 6+.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975436, three possible syntypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Dohrn (1863) gives the measurements of five specimens, but it is unclear how many specimens his description was actually based upon. The specimens in NHMUK are accompanied by two sets of labels. One is in Dohrn’s handwriting (teste S.P. Dance, 1958) and has ”Huallaga” as the locality. The other label set originates from Farris and has "Province of Patas, Andes of Peru"; the taxon name is in Pfeiffer’s handwriting, who identified it as Bulimus tessellatus Shuttleworth, 1852. The latter label may have been added to the material in a later stage. Due to the fact the other label has original handwriting, the specimens are considered possible syntypes. The current systematic position follows Richardson (1995: 239).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Neopetraeus atahualpa (Dohrn, 1863).

Figures

Figure 56. Neopetraeus species. A-C Neopetraeus altoperuvianus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975437 (H = 46.5) D-F Neopetraeus atahualpa (Dohrn, 1863), possible syntype NHMUK 1975436 (H = 38.5) G-I Neopetraeus decussatus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975180 (H = 37.7) J-L Neopetraeus patasensis (Pfeiffer, 1858), lectotype NHMUK 1975439 (H = 46.8). All enlarged.

Figure L 6. Labels. i Bulimus aquilus Reeve, 1848 ii Bulimus atacamensis Pfeiffer, 1856 iii Bulimus arcuatostriatus Pfeiffer, 1855 iv-v Bulimulus atahualpa Dohrn, 1863 vi Bulimus attenuatus Pfeiffer, 1853 vii Bulimus aurifluus Pfeiffer 1857.