Bulimus macgillivrayi Pfeiffer, 1855

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 27-28

Bulimus macgillivrayi Pfeiffer, 1855 Figs 10B, 10i

Bulimus macgillivrayi Pfeiffer 1855b: 108, pl. 32 fig. 2.

Placostylus (Placocharis) macgillivrayi ; Breure and Schouten 1985: 63 (lectotype designation).

Placocharis macgillivrayi ; Delsaerdt 2010: 61, pl. 10 figs 9-11; Breure and Ablett 2012: 25, figs 14B, 14v.

Type locality.

"Wanderer Bay, Guadalcanar, Salomon’s Islands ( Macgillivray )".

Label.

"Solomons Inseln", in Albers’ handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 59, diam. 22 mill."; specimen figured herein H 51.3, D 21.3, W 6.2.

Type material.

ZMB 117763, one paralectotype; ex Albers coll. No. 383, ex Cuming coll.

Remarks.

Pfeiffer did not state on how many specimens his description was based. The specimen was received from Cuming by Albers and is here considered type material; the lectotype is in NHMUK. The current systematic position follows Delsaerdt (2010).

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae , Placocharis macgillivrayi (Pfeiffer, 1855).

Figures

Figure 10. Placocharis species A, ii Placocharis manni (W. F. Clapp, 1923), paratype ZMB 74852 (H = 81.5) B, i Placocharis macgillivrayi (Pfeiffer, 1855) paralectotype ZMB 117763 (H = 51.3) Photo: C. Zorn C, iii Placocharis strangei (Pfeiffer, 1855) paralectotype ZMB 117764 (H = 47.3) D, iv Placocharis stutchbury (Pfeiffer, 1860) possible syntype ZMB 117766 (H = 47.4).