Porphyrobaphe (Myiorthalicus) dennisoni pallida Strebel, 1909

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 35-36

Porphyrobaphe (Myiorthalicus) dennisoni pallida Strebel, 1909 Figs 18G-H, 18iv

Porphyrobaphe (Myiorthalicus) dennisoni pallida Strebel 1909: 115, pl. 21 fig. 328, pl. 24 figs 376-379.

Type locality.

[Colombia] "Cauca-Tal, Columbien (...) Frontino, 6-8000 ´”.

Label. "Frontina / Neu Grenada", with a second, taxon label in Strebel’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

See remarks; figured specimen herein H 55.0, D 33.8, W 5.8.

Type material.

ZMB 117782, one probable syntype; ex Dunker ex Schmeltz [18]74, [?G. Wallis leg., see remarks].

Remarks.

Strebel (1909: 116-117) listed in total six lots and mentioned "Nach dem mir vorliegenden Material aus der O. Semperschen und meiner alten Sammlung, dass wir beiden z. Z. [zur Zeit] von Schmeltz, der den Vertrieb des Wallisschen Material hatte, erwarben, ist die var. pallida mit der Etikette Frontino, Neu-Granada, versehen". This sentence makes clear that lot 2 and 3 (seven specimens in total) in Strebel’s list refers to this material, of which he figured two and gave measurements of four specimens respectively. The shell height in his material (totally more than 15 specimens mentioned) varies between 34.5-83.3 mm. The taxon label in Strebel’s hand makes it very probable that this specimen belonged to the original series. The provisional current systematic position is according to own unpublished data.

Current systematic position.

Orthalicidae , Hemibulimus dennisoni (Reeve, 1848).

Figures

Figure 18. A-D Corona species A-B, i Corona pfeifferi (Hidalgo, 1869), syntype of Corona pfeifferi cincta Strebel, 1909 ZMB 101856 (H = 55.0) C-D, ii Corona perversa (Swainson, 1821), holotype of Orthalicus (Laeorthalicus) reginaeformis Strebel, 1909 ZMB 101824 (H = 46.9) E-H Hemibulimus species E-F, iii Hemibulimus excisus (Martens, 1885), holotype ZMB 101837 (H = 43.1) G-H, iv Hemibulimus dennisoni (Reeve, 1848), probable syntype of Porphyrobaphe (Myiorthalicus) dennisoni pallida Strebel, 1909 ZMB 117782 (H = 55.0).