Scutalus (Scutalus) ortizpuentei Weyrauch, 1967

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 34-35

Scutalus (Scutalus) ortizpuentei Weyrauch, 1967

Scutalus (Scutalus) ortizpuentei Weyrauch 1967: 378, pl. 7 fig. 100; Breure 2012: 11, pl. 5 figs 52-54.

Type locality.

"Norte de Perú, vertiente occidental de la Cordillera Occidental, valle de Chancay, entre Chiclayo y Chota (80 km al norte de Quinden)".

Label.

"Cascas bei Trujillo, 1400 m, leg. W. Weyrauch", typewritten label by Weyrauch; see remarks.

Material.

ZMB 110778, one specimen; W.K. Weyrauch leg.

Remarks.

According to the typewritten label this specimen was identified by Weyrauch as Scutalus latecolumellaris ortizpuentei and distributed as “Paratypoide”. The locality does not match the type locality and-since the taxon was based on a single specimen-no other localities were mentioned in the text. Moreover, the text stated that the holotype was collected by J. Ortiz de la Puente. Therefore, we must conclude that this specimen is not a paratype of this taxon. Presumably, Weyrauch collected this material during his Peruvian time in the 1940s or 1950s ( Barbosa et al. 2008), identified it and distributed it as paratype well before he described the taxon in 1967 (see also Breure and Neubert 2008). The holotype is FML 1234 (re-figured by Breure 2012).