Bulimus (Dryptus) stuebeli Martens, 1885

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 46

Bulimus (Dryptus) stuebeli Martens, 1885

Bulimus (Dryptus) stuebeli Martens 1885: 172, pl. 32 figs 5-7 [sic, 6-8].

Dryptus stuebeli ; Köhler 2007: 129, fig. 14; Borrero and Breure 2011: 11.

Remarks.

Martens (1885: pl. 32 fig. 8) showed the sculpture on the last whorl, which appears upon inspection of the lectotype perfectly matching those of Plekocheilus (Eurytus) species. The lectotype lacks the top whorls and is otherwise quite worn. However, it has good locality data ( Fusugasugá, 1700 m) and the taxon is here synonymized with Bulimus (Eurytus) corticosus Sowerby III, 1895 (syn. n.). The latter taxon strongly resembles Bulimus stuebeli morphologically, occurs in the same region, and has a similar altitudinal range ( Borrero and Breure 2011: 26, figs 9C, 10D-G). As Martens’ taxon is a senior subjective synonym, the current systematic position of this taxon becomes Plekocheilus (Eurytus) episcopalis stuebeli (Martens, 1885) (comb. n.).