Bulimus foveolatus Reeve, 1849

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Megaspiridae, Orthalicidae, and Simpulopsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 470, pp. 17-143 : 26-27

Bulimus foveolatus Reeve, 1849 Figs 1v-vi, L7i

Bulimus mahogani Pfeiffer 1841: 42; Pfeiffer 1844 in Küster and Pfeiffer 1840-1865: 40, pl. 13 figs 1-2; Pfeiffer 1848b: 24. Not Bulinus mahogani Sowerby, 1838. See remarks.

Bulimus foveolatus Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 73 fig. 526; Pfeiffer 1853 in Küster and Pfeiffer 1840-1865: xiv; Breure 1979: 44 (lectotype designation).

Strophocheilus foveolatus ; Pilsbry 1895 [1895-1896]: 46, pl. 24 fig. 71.

Type locality.

"Vitoe, near Sarma [sic, Tarma], Alto-Peru; W. Lobb".

Label.

“Peru”. M.C. label style IV, V.

Dimensions.

"Long. 3 poll., diam. 15 lin. [H 76.0, D 31.7 mm]"; see remarks. Figured specimen H 71.5, D 37.0, W 5.7.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975275, lectotype; 1975276, one paralectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Pfeiffer, in his original description, referred to Sowerby I 1838 in Sowerby I and II 1832-1841: fig. 59, for which no further data were presented; Pfeiffer (1848b) corrected the dimensions to "Long. 72, diam. 35 mill.". In both instances the locality was presented as “Chile”, and the material as collected by Philippi (jun.); in Pfeiffer 1844 ( Küster and Pfeiffer 1840-1865) "Aufenthalt: Chile und Peru" is given. The shell figured in the latter publication may be referred to what Reeve (1849) has named as Bulimus foveolatus ; Pfeiffer (1853: xiv) remarked that his taxon was not identical to Sowerby’s Bulinus mahogani , however, he did not discuss the large geographical distance between the localities where Philippi and Lobb collected their material. Pfeiffer’s original material is most probably lost ( Dance 1966), and whether his taxon is a synonym of Reeve’s may possibly never be fully ascertained. The current systematic position follows Richardson (1995: 375), who incorrectly assigned this taxon to Pfeiffer.

Current systematic position.

Megaspiridae , Thaumastus foveolatus (Reeve, 1849).