Bulimulus istapensis Crosse and Fischer, 1873

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 : 78

Bulimulus istapensis Crosse and Fischer, 1873 Figs 63O-P , L30vii

Bulimulus istapensis Crosse and Fischer 1873: 286; Fischer and Crosse 1875: 549, pl. 20 fig. 18.

Type locality.

"Istapa, Guatemalae, in silvis (A. Morelet)".

Label.

"Forests d’Istapa, Guatemala", in Morelet’s hamdwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 14 1/2, diam. maj. vix 7 mill."; figured specimen herein H 11.2, D 6.33, W 5.9.

Type material.

NHMUK 1893.2.4.1185-1187, three possible syntypes (Morelet coll.).

Remarks.

The original description does not mention on how many specimens it was based, but does refer to a specimen in the Morelet collection. The specimens, of which one is broken, are considered possible syntypes. The current systematic position follows Thompson (2011).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bulimulus unicolor (Sowerby I, 1833).

Figures

Figure 63. Bulimulus species. A-B Bulimulus monachus (Pfeiffer, 1857), lectotype NHMUK 20100584 (H = 31.2) C-D Bulimulus guadalupensis (Bruguiere, 1789), lectotype of Bulimus rubrifasciatus Reeve, 1848 NHM 1975393 (H = 22.9) E-F Bulimulus corneous (Sowerby I, 1833), lectotype of Bulimus nubeculatus Pfeiffer, 1853 NHMUK 1975407 (H = 16.0) G-H Bulimulus transparens (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975397 (H = 18.4) I-J Bulimulus marcidus (Pfeiffer, 1853), possible syntype NHMUK 20100649 (H = 18.0) K-L Bulimulus turritellatus (Beck, 1838), paralectotype of Helix turritella d'Orbigny 1835 NHMUK 1854.12.4.166 (H = 19.3) M-P Bulimulus unicolor (Sowerby I, 1833) M-N lectotype of Bulimus petenensis Morelet, 1851 NHMUK 1893.2.4.1176 (H = 18.7) O-P Possible syntype of Bulimulus istapensis Crosse and Fischer, 1873 NHMUK 1893.2.4.1185 (H = 11.2). All enlarged.

Figure L 30. Labels. i Bulimus inglorius Reeve, 1848 ii Bulimulus (Drymaeus) inusitatus Fulton, 1900 iii Bulimus infundibulum Pfeiffer, 1853 iv Bulimus inutilis Reeve, 1850 v Bulimus iodostylus Pfeiffer, 1861 vi Bulimus irregularis Pfeiffer, 1848 vii Bulimulus istapensis Crosse and Fischer, 1873 viii Otostomus lilacinus jansoni Martens, 1893.