Bulimus rhodacme Pfeiffer, 1842

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 41

Bulimus rhodacme Pfeiffer, 1842 Figs 14B, 14ii

Bulimus rhodacme Pfeiffer 1842: 50.

Type locality.

"Huasco, Chile: prope urbem Frierina (Bridges, Cuming)".

Label.

“Chili”, in Albers’ handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 15, diam. 5 1/2 mill."; figured specimen herein H 13.1, D 5.97, W 6.5.

Type material.

ZMB 117775, one syntype; ex Albers coll. No. 7, ex Cuming coll.

Remarks.

This taxon was described from the Cuming collection but Pfeiffer did not mention on how many specimens his description was based. Albers received this shell from Cuming, hence it type status is not disputed. No type material belonging to this species could be found in the NHMUK collection (Breure, unpublished data). This taxon is provisionally classified with Bostryx sensu lato ( Breure 1979), for which a genus revision is overdue.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bostryx rhodacme (Pfeiffer, 1842).

Figures

Figure 14. Bostryx (sensu lato) species A, i Bostryx modestus (Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby, 1832), probable syntype of Bulimus laurentii Sowerby I, 1833 ZMB 117770 (H = 15.3) B, ii Bostryx rhodacme (Pfeiffer, 1842), syntype ZMB 117775 (H = 13.1) C-E, iv Bostryx terebralis (Pfeiffer, 1842), probable syntype ZMB 117777 (H = 20.3) F, iii Bostryx rhodolarynx (Reeve, 1849), paralectotype ZMB 117776 (H = 27.0). All enlarged.