Bulimus miltocheilus Reeve, 1848

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 : 18

Bulimus miltocheilus Reeve, 1848 Figs 10C, 10iii

Bulimus miltocheilus Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 49 fig. 322; Breure and Schouten 1985: 70.

Aspastus miltocheilus (Reeve); Delsaerdt 2010: 21 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

[Solomon Islands] "San Christoval, southeastern island of Solomon’s Group, northeast coast of New Holland". Restricted to [Makira] "Kirakira (Wainoni-Bay)" by Rensch and Rensch (1935: 72).

Label.

"San Cristoval, Solomon Is.". M.C. label style IV.

Dimensions.

Not given. Specimen figured herein H 68.3, D 25.0, W 6.0.

Type material.

NHMUK 20070072, two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Delsaerdt (2010) has selected Reeve’s original figure as the lectotype.

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Aspastus miltocheilus (Reeve, 1848).

Figures

Figure 10. Placostylus and Aspastus species. A, i Placostylus corpulentus (Gassies, 1871), syntype NHM 1883.11.10.1173 (H = 94.0). Reduced in size B, ii Aspastus sellersi (Cox, 1871), lectotype NHM 2007069 (H = 44.4) C, iii Aspastus miltocheilus (Reeve, 1848), lectotype NHM 2007072 (H = 68.3).