Bulimus demotus Reeve, 1850

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 : 47

Bulimus demotus Reeve, 1850 Figs 25F , L17iii

Bulimus feriatus Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 54 fig. 354; Breure 1979: 118 (lectotype designation).

Bulimus demotus Reeve 1850 [1848-1850]: ii. New name for Bulimus feriatus Reeve, 1848 (Dec.), not Reeve, 1848 (Nov.); Pfeiffer 1853d: 340.

Drymaeus demotus ; Pilsbry 1898 [1897-1898]: 306, pl. 43 fig. 81.

Type locality.

”Venezuela”.

Label.

”Venezuela”. M.C. label style IV, V.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 31.8, D 15.3, W 6.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975504, lectotype; 1975505, two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The lectotype corresponds to Reeve’s figure. The current systematic position follows Richardson (1995: 131).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) granadensis (Pfeiffer, 1848).

Figures

Figure 25. Drymaeus species. A Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) aurifluus (Pfeiffer, 1857), lectotype NHMUK 1975502 (H = 21.8) B Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) bugabensis (Martens, 1893), lectotype NHMUK 1901.6.22.958 (H = 26.3) C Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) dubius (Pfeiffer, 1853), lectotype NHMUK 1975519 (H = 27.1) D Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) (?) rufescens (J. E. Gray, 1825), lectotype of Bulimus erusbescens Pfeiffer, 1847 NHMUK 1975562 (H = 24.2) E Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) conicus da Costa, 1907, lectotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.32 (H = 17.5) F Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) granadensis (Pfeiffer, 1848), lectotype of Bulimus demotus Reeve, 1850 NHMUK 1975504 (H = 31.8) G Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) vexillum (Wood, 1828), lectotype of Bulimus keppelli Pfeiffer, 1853 NHMUK 1975538 (H = 33.2) H Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) attenuatus varicosus (Pfeiffer, 1853), lectotype NHMUK 1975466 (H = 35.5) I-K Drymaeus (Drymaeus) signifer (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHMUK 1975216 (H = 32.9). All enlarged.

Figure L 17. Labels. i Bulimus delumbis Reeve, 1849 ii Bulimus dentritis Morelet, 1863 iii Bulimus demotus Reeve, 1850 iv Bulimus denickei J. E. Gray, 1852 v Bulimus depictus Reeve, 1849 vi Bulimus depstus Reeve, 1849 vii Bulinus derelictus Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832.