Bulimus flexuosus Pfeiffer, 1853

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 : 60

Bulimus flexuosus Pfeiffer, 1853 Figs 34A-C , L23v

Bulimus flexuosus Pfeiffer 1853d: 329; Pfeiffer 1854b: 136; Pfeiffer 1854 in Küster and Pfeiffer 1840-1865: 244, pl. 65 figs 6-7; Breure 1979: 109 (lectotype designation).

Drymaeus flexuosus ; Linares and Vera 2012: 186 [partim].

Drymaeus (Drymaeus) flexuosus ; Breure and Eskens 1981: 26, pl. 5 fig. 3.

Type locality.

[Colombia, Dept. Caldas] "Marinato [sic, Marmato] Novae Granadae".

Label.

"Marinata / New Grenada", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style III.

Dimensions.

"Long. 40, diam. 14 mill."; figured specimen herein H 43.0, D 20.0, W 7.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975202, lectotype; 1975203, two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

This taxon is restricted to the Central Cordillera in Colombia and has partly been confused with other Drymaeus species (Breure and Borrero, unpublished data).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Drymaeus) flexuosus (Pfeiffer, 1853).

Figures

Figure 34. Drymaeus species. A-C Drymaeus (Drymaeus) flexuosus (Pfeiffer, 1853), lectotype NHMUK 1975202 (H = 43.0) D-F Drymaeus (Drymaeus) spadiceus da Costa, 1906, holotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.15 (H = 37.3). All enlarged.

Figure L 23. Labels. i Bulimus fidustus Reeve, 1849 ii Bulimus filaris Pfeiffer, 1853 iii Bulimus (Liostracus) flavidulus E. A. Smith, 1877 iv Bulimus flexilabris Pfeiffer, 1853 v Bulimus flexuosus Pfeiffer, 1853.