Bulimus bifulguratus 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 : 20

Bulimus bifulguratus Reeve, 1849 Figs 12i-ii, L2iii

Bulimus bifulguratus Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 82 fig. 606.

Oxystyla bifulgurata ; Pilsbry 1899: 143, pl. 31 figs 59-60.

Orthalicus bifulguratus ; Breure and Schouten 1985: 29 (lectotype designation); Linares and Vera 2012: 151.

Type locality.

[Colombia] "Andes of Columbia".

Label.

"Andes of Colombia". M.C. label style I, V.

Dimensions.

Not given. Figured specimen H 56.9, D 32.8, W 5.8.

Type material.

NHMUK 20140082, lectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Reeve did not state on how many specimens his description was based. The lectotype is not full-grown as shown by the lip. Pfeiffer (1853b: 388) mentioned specimens from both "Mus. Cuming, Benson. et Coll. Nr. 260 jun."; as shell height he gave 65 mm, which was likely measured on a full-grown specimen. Richardson (1993: 98, 110) treated this taxon both as a separate species and as a junior subjective synonym of Bulinus princeps Broderip in Sowerby I 1833; tentatively this taxon is retained as a full species awaiting further studies.

Current systematic position.

Orthalicidae , Orthalicus bifulguratus (Reeve, 1849).