Bulimus ambustus Reeve, 1849

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 : 16

Bulimus ambustus Reeve, 1849 Figs 40J-L , L4iii

Bulimus ambustus Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 74 fig. 535.

Drymaeus ambustus ; Pilsbry 1898 [1897-1898]: 264, pl. 46 figs 66-67.

Drymaeus (Drymaeus) ambustus ; Breure and Eskens 1981: 5.

Type locality.

”-?”.

Label.

[Ecuador] "Between Jacunga [Prov. Cotapaxi, Latacunga] and / [Prov. Tungurahua] Ambato", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style IV, V.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 29.0, D 13.1, W 6.3.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975441/1-3, lectotype and two paralectotypes, Bourcier leg. (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Although the label given is more precise than the locality given in Reeve’s publication and the specimens bear a label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting, one of the shells does corresponds to the specimen figured by Reeve. The current systematic position follows Richardson (1995: 97).

Current systematic position.

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 4. Labels. i Bulimus altoperuvianus Reeve, 1849 ii Bulimus amandus Pfeiffer, 1855 iii Bulimus ambustus Reeve, 1849 iv Bulimus andicola Pfeiffer, 1847 v Bulimus andoicus Morelet, 1863 vi Drymaeus angustus da Costa, 1906.