Orthalicus meobambensis carnea 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 : 14

Orthalicus meobambensis carnea Strebel, 1909 Figs 28A-B, 28i

Orthalicus meobambensis carnea Strebel 1909: 149, pl. 19 fig. 428.

Type locality.

[Peru] “Meobamba”.

Label.

“Meobamba”, in Albers’ handwriting.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 68.7, D 42.8, W 6.3.

Type material.

ZMB 101823, holotype; ex Albers coll. No. 558, ex Cuming coll.

Remarks.

Besides the Albers’ label and the second label, previously mentioned by Strebel ("This shell cost me a Guinea"), there is a third label "zwischen Dennisoni / cf. Rv 166 / u. gall.sultana / aber nicht zu trullisatus / Shuttleworth". As Strebel based himself explicitly on one specimen and mentioned "Berl. Museum", the specimen found is the holotype.

Current systematic position.

Orthalicidae , Sultana (Metorthalicus) meobambensis (Pfeiffer, 1855).

Figures

Figure 28. Sultana (Metorthalicus) species. A-B, i Sultana (Metorthalicus) meobambensis (Pfeiffer, 1855), holotype of Orthalicus meobambensis carnea Strebel, 1909 ZMB 101823 (H = 68.7) C-E, ii Sultana (Metorthalicus) maranhonensis (Albers, 1854), lectotype ZMB 101825 (H = 75.6).