Bulimulus gilderoyi Van Mol, 1972

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2011, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Royal Belgian Institute of Sciences, Brussels, with descriptions of two new species, ZooKeys 101, pp. 1-50 : 15

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.101.1133

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Bulimulus gilderoyi Van Mol, 1972
status

 

Bulimulus gilderoyi Van Mol, 1972 Figs 14G, 14iii

Bulimulus gilderoyi Van Mol 1972: 2, fig. 1.

Naesiotus gilderoyi (Van Mol); Breure 1979: 69.

Type locality.

[Ecuador] “Galápagos, Santa Cruz, à proximité du Cerro Coralon".

Label.

"Galapagos, Santa Cruz, (...) Cerro Coralon", in Van Mol’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Hauteur 25.3 Largeur max. 15.5 (mm)"; holotype H 25.4, D 15.6 W 6.6.

Type material.

RBINS/MT106, holotype; MT107, one paratype; MT108, 19 paratypes, all Van Mol leg., 27.x.1970.

Remarks.

This taxon was published on 10.ix.1972; A.G. Smith published a paper in which he described the same species as Naesiotus cavagnaroi on 21.i.1972. Breure and Coppois (1978: 170) synonymized Bulimulus gilderoyi Van Mol with Naesiotus cavagnaroi A.G. Smith, as a junior subjective synonym.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Naesiotus cavagnaroi A.G. Smith, 1972.