Bulimus schmidti Pfeiffer, 1854

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 : 147

Bulimus schmidti Pfeiffer, 1854 Fig. L54i

Bulimus coarctatus Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 41 fig. 260; not Bulimus coarctatus Pfeiffer, 1845.

Bulimus schmidti Pfeiffer 1854a: 65.

Type locality.

”...?”.

Label.

”-?”.

Dimensions.

"Long. 34, diam 17 mill.". Figured specimen H 34.0, D 18.9, W 6.6.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975270, two specimens (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Pfeiffer described his taxon from "einer alten Sammlung" from an unknown locality. His first reference of Reeve’s figure being conspecific is given in Pfeiffer 1858b: 166 ( Richardson’s reference ( 1995: 174) to Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1852 [1854]: 65 is a lapsus). The specimens in this lot corresponds to Pfeiffer’s description and one of the shells fits his dimensions and also Reeve’s figure. However, since no taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting nor a label from Reeve’s Conchologica Iconica is present, the specimens are not considered type specimens.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Drymaeus) schmidti (Pfeiffer, 1854).

Figures

Figure L 54. Labels. i Bulimus schmidti Pfeiffer, 1854 ii Bulimus scitulus Reeve, 1849 iii Otostomus scitus H. Adams, 1867 iv Bulimulus (Drymaeus) selli Preston, 1909 v Bulimus serotinus Morelet, 1860 vi Bulimus serratus Pfeiffer, 1855.