Limnaeus obesus var. obesus, von Martens, 1867

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 : 137

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

obesus von Martens, 1867 Fig. 32

Limnaeus javanicus var. obesus von Martens 1867: 223.

Limnaea javanica var. obesa von Martens 1881: 87, pl. 16, fig. 1.

Limnaeus javanicus var. obesus Kilias, 1961: 164, fig. 5.

Type material.

14 shells of syntypes collected in Indonesia and kept under No. 8124. The largest of these shells reaches 27.0 mm height. Kilias (1961) reported that he intended one of these shells to be the lectotype of Limnaeus javanicus var. obesus and separated it under accession number 8124a, however I was not able to find this specimen in ZMB collection. Probably, it is still placed among other syntypes under No. 8124.

Type locality.

Indonesia: Java Island (Telaga, Patengan). leg. Baron von Richthofen.

Current taxonomic allocation.

Cerasina luteola . Hubendick (1951) synonymized Limnaea javanica var. obesus with the race rubiginosa of Radix auricularia .