Placostylus paravicinianus B. Rensch, 1934

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 36-37

Placostylus paravicinianus B. Rensch, 1934 Figs 12B, 12iv

Placostylus paravicinianus B. Rensch in I. and B. Rensch 1934: 451; I. and B. Rensch 1935: 79, pl. 1 fig. 7.

Aspastus paravicinianus ; Delsaerdt 2010: 66, pl. 11 figs 7-11.

Type locality.

[Solomon Islands] “Guadalcanar”.

Label.

"Aola, Guadelcanar", in Rensch’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

“Höhe 60.5-71.4 mm; Durchm. 28.4-32.2 mm"; figured specimen herein H 66.6, D 28.3, W 6.2.

Type material.

ZMB 78711, two paratypes; E. Paravicini leg.

Remarks.

According to Delsaerdt (2010) the holotype is NMB 3798a; the current systematic position is also after this author. Rensch and Rensch (1935) mentioned having 10 specimens ("Es liegen 10 Schalen...vor"), whereas Delsaerdt mentioned one holotype and 10 paratypes in the NMB collection; the status of the Berlin specimens is not disputed since the label reads “Paratypen!” in the handwriting of Rensch.

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae , Aspastus paravicinianus (B. Rensch, 1934).

Figures

Figure 12. A, i-iii Placostylus scarabus (Albers, 1854), syntype ZMB 101820 (H = 53.8) Photo: C. Zorn B, iv Aspastus paravicinianus (B. Rensch, 1934), paratype ZMB 78711 (H = 66.6) C, v Eumecostylus vicinus (B. Rensch, 1934), paratype ZMB 78702 (H = 63.6).