Bothriembryon franki Iredale, 1939

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Whisson, Corey S., 2012, Annotated type catalogue of Bothriembryon (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in Australian museums, with a compilation of types in other museums, ZooKeys 194, pp. 41-80 : 45

Bothriembryon franki Iredale, 1939 Fig. 8B

Bothriembryon franki Iredale 1939: 29, pl. 2 fig. 25.

Bothriembryon fuscus franki Iredale; Smith 1992: 103.

Type locality.

[Western Australia] “Denmark”.

Label.

"Denmark / Deep River / WA".

Dimensions.

"Length 40 mm., breadth 21 mm."; figured specimen H 40.0, D 19.6, W 5.2.

Type material.

AM C100728, syntype; AM C127672, 35 syntypes; MV F3332, nine syntypes; MV F26911, four syntypes; WAM S15145, six syntypes.

Remarks.

The text in Iredale (1939) has led to some confusion with later authors. Under the heading " Bothriembryon fuscus Thiele 1930" Iredale described shells ("a very large series") from Denmark as Bothriembryon franki (see the legend of his pl. 2; not Bothriembryon fuscus franki as Smith (1992) suggested). The type locality Deep River is ca. 100 km W Denmark in the Walpole area. The shells he referred to as collected by S.W. Jackson at "Deep River, Nornalup Inlet" were suggested to be identical with Bothriembryon fuscus , which was described by Thiele from Torbay. Wells (1977) erroneously listed the Deep River specimens as types of fuscus Thiele. Smith (1992) listed the same specimens as syntypes of fuscus from Torbay. See also Bothriembryon fuscus on p. 65.

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon fuscus Thiele, 1930.

Figures

Figure 8. A-B Bothriembryon fuscus Thiele, 1930 A Holotype, ZMB 67610 (H = 20.0) Photo: F. Koehler B Syntype of B. franki Iredale, 1939, AM C 100728 (H = 40.0) C B. glauerti Iredale, 1939, syntype, WAM S 14466 (H = 36.7) D Bulimus (Liparus) gratwicki Cox, 1899, syntype, AM C 127559 (H = 29.5).