Drymaeus sykesi da Costa, 1906

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 : 157

Drymaeus sykesi da Costa, 1906 Figs 35J-L , L58iii

Drymaeus sykesi da Costa 1906a: 7, pl. 1 fig. 1; Breure 1979: 124; Linares and Vera 2012: 200.

Type locality.

[Colombia] ”Bogotá”.

Label.

”Bogota”, in da Costa’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 52, diam. 19 mm."; figured specimen herein H 51.7, D 19.8, W 6+.

Type material.

NHMUK 1907.11.21.4, holotype (da Costa coll.).

Remarks.

da Costa described this species "from a single specimen"; the specimen found is thus the holotype. The top whorls are missing.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Drymaeus) sykesi da Costa, 1906.

Figures

Figure 35. Drymaeus species. A-C Drymaeus (Drymaeus) volsus Fulton, 1907, lectotype NHMUK 1907.5.3.162 (H = 30.3) D-F Drymaeus (Drymaeus) yungasensis (d'Orbigny, 1837), lectotype NHMUK 1854.12.4.134 (H = 32.6) G-I Drymaeus (Drymaeus) lucidus (da Costa, 1898), lectotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.44 (H = 18.6) J-L Drymaeus (Drymaeus) sykesi da Costa, 1906, holotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.4 (H = 51.7). All enlarged.

Figure L 58. Labels. i Bulimus sulcosus Pfeiffer, 1841 ii Bulimus sugillatus Pfeiffer, 1857 iii Drymaeus sykesi da Costa, 1906 iv Bulimus sulphureus Pfeiffer, 1857.