Bulimus petenensis Morelet, 1851

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 : 122

Bulimus petenensis Morelet, 1851 Figs 63M-N , L45vii

Bulimus petenensis Morelet 1851: 10; Breure 1979: 64 (lectotype designation); Neubert and Janssen 2004: 222, pl. 10 fig. 108.

Bulimulus unicolor petenensis ; Breure 1978: 149.

Bulimulus unicolor (Sowerby I, 1833); Thompson 2011: 107.

Type locality.

[Guatemala] "campos Petenensis".

Label.

"Savanes du Peten", in Morelet’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Longit. 19.-Diam. 8"; figured specimen herein H 18.7, D 9.23, W 5.5.

Type material.

NHMUK 1893.2.4.1176, lectotype; 1893.2.4.1177-1178, paralectotypes (ex Morelet).

Remarks.

Morelet did not state on how many specimens his description was based. The current systematic position follows Thompson (2011).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bulimulus unicolor (Sowerby I, 1833).

Figures

Figure 63. Bulimulus species. A-B Bulimulus monachus (Pfeiffer, 1857), lectotype NHMUK 20100584 (H = 31.2) C-D Bulimulus guadalupensis (Bruguiere, 1789), lectotype of Bulimus rubrifasciatus Reeve, 1848 NHM 1975393 (H = 22.9) E-F Bulimulus corneous (Sowerby I, 1833), lectotype of Bulimus nubeculatus Pfeiffer, 1853 NHMUK 1975407 (H = 16.0) G-H Bulimulus transparens (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975397 (H = 18.4) I-J Bulimulus marcidus (Pfeiffer, 1853), possible syntype NHMUK 20100649 (H = 18.0) K-L Bulimulus turritellatus (Beck, 1838), paralectotype of Helix turritella d'Orbigny 1835 NHMUK 1854.12.4.166 (H = 19.3) M-P Bulimulus unicolor (Sowerby I, 1833) M-N lectotype of Bulimus petenensis Morelet, 1851 NHMUK 1893.2.4.1176 (H = 18.7) O-P Possible syntype of Bulimulus istapensis Crosse and Fischer, 1873 NHMUK 1893.2.4.1185 (H = 11.2). All enlarged.

Figure L 45. Labels. i Helix paziana d'Orbigny, 1835 ii Drymaeus expansus perenensis da Costa, 1901 iii Bulimulus pergracilis Rolle, 1904 iv Bulimus perspectivus Pfeiffer, 1846 v Bulimus pervariabilis Pfeiffer, 1853 vi Bulimus pervius Pfeiffer, 1853 vii Bulimus petenensis Morelet, 1851.