amygdalum Troschel, 1837

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 : 131-132

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scientific name	amygdalum Troschel, 1837
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Treatment

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

amygdalum Troschel, 1837 Figs 3, 4

Limnaeus amygdalum Troschel 1837: 168.

Limnaeus amygdalum Küster 1862: 35, pl. 6, figs 15, 16.

Limnaea acuminata var. amygdalum von Martens, 1881: 76, pl. 14, figs 7, 8.

Limnaea acuminata var. amygdalum Preston 1915: 107.

Limnaea acuminata f. typica Annandale and Rao 1925: 180.

Lymnaea auricularia race rufescens Hubendick 1951: 157, fig. 344.

Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata Subba Rao 1989: 126, figs 254-265, 272.

Type material.

Two samples of Limnaeus amygdalum from the Ganges River in ZMB (Nos. 72991 and 109767) contain, in total, 12 syntypes. The largest syntype is 30.0 mm height. The syntypes are visibly different in their proportions (compare figs 3 and 4).

Type locality.

India, the Ganges River.

Current taxonomic allocation.

Radix (Radix) rufescens (Gray, 1822).