Limnaeus cornea, " Ziegler "

Vinarski, Maxim V., 2016, Annotated type catalogue of lymnaeid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (1), pp. 131-152 : 141

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

cornea "Ziegler" Fig. 55

Limnaea cornea “Ziegler” (? in MS).

Material.

Three shells collected in Carniolia (= Kraina, a historical region of Slovenia) and kept in ZMB under accession number 109754 (ex Dunker collection). The largest of the three shells is 13.1 mm height.

Current taxonomic allocation.

Radix peregra = Radix labiata sensu Falkner et al. 2002.

Remark.

Limnaea cornea is absent in most taxonomic works devoted to overview of the European continental malacofauna, including those dealing with the species names attributed to Ziegler ( Rossmässler 1835; Beck 1837; Küster 1862; Kobelt 1877; Clessin 1887; Hubendick 1951). Dupuy (1851: 473) as well as Westerlund (1885) listed Limnaea cornea Zgl. among synonyms of Limnaea peregra , but I could not find any evidence that this species was ever described formally.