Bulimus chamaeleon Pfeiffer, 1855

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 : 34

Bulimus chamaeleon Pfeiffer, 1855 Figs 40A-C , L12ii

Bulimus chamaeleon Pfeiffer 1855f: 116; Breure 1979: 107.

Type locality.

[Ecuador] "Quito (Mr. Bourcier)".

Label.

"near Quito / Ecuador / Monsr Bourcier / Consul General"; taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style IV.

Dimensions.

"Long 27, diam. 11 1/2 mill."; figured specimen herein H 27.6, D 12.2, W 6.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975448, three syntypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Richardson (1995: 98) listed this taxon as a nomen nudum in Pfeiffer 1853d: 422, and Pfeiffer 1854 in Küster and Pfeiffer 1840-1865: 105, pl. 33 figs 17-18. However, the name Bulimus chamaeleon seems to have been published for the first time in Pfeiffer 1855f: 116. The current systematic position follows Richardson (1995).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Drymaeus) ambustus (Reeve, 1849).

Figures

Figure 40. Drymaeus species. A-C Drymaeus (Drymaeus) chamaeleon (Pfeiffer, 1855), syntype NHMUK 1975448 (H = 27.6) D-F Drymaeus (Drymaeus) rosenbergi da Costa, 1900, lectotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.17 (H = 19.0) G-I Drymaeus (Drymaeus) zhorquinensis (Angas, 1879), lectotype NHMUK 1879.7.22.15 (H = 46.1) J-L Drymaeus (Drymaeus) ambustus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975441 / 1 (H = 29.0). All enlarged.

Figure L 12. Labels. i Bulimus cercicola Morelet, 1863 ii Bulimus chamaeleon Pfeiffer, 1855 iii Otostomus championi Martens, 1893 iv Bulimus chemnitzioides Forbes, 1850 v Bulimus chimborasensis Reeve, 1848 vi Drymaeus chiriquiensis da Costa, 1901 vii Bulimus cinereus Reeve, 1849.