Bulimus cuninculinsulae Cox, 1872

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2012, Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 182, pp. 1-70 : 9

Bulimus cuninculinsulae Cox, 1872 Figs 12C, 12iii

Bulimus cuninculinsulae Cox 1872b: 19, 233, pl. 18 fig. 5; Breure and Schouten 1985: 68 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

[Australia] "Rabbit Island, near Lord Howe’s Island, Pacific Ocean".

Label.

"Rabbit Is. / near Lord / Howe’s Is. / Pacific ocean".

Dimensions.

"Length 1.65, breadth 0.75 of an inch [H 41.9, D 19.1 mm]"; lectotype H 41.6, D 20.5, W 5.6.

Type material.

NHMUK 1880.12.11.47-48, lectotype and one paralectotype (ex Cox).

Remarks.

The specimen figured by Cox (1872) has been chosen by Breure and Schouten (1985) as the lectotype; the paralectotype matches the original measurements (H 41.9).

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Placostylus cuninculinsulae (Cox, 1872).

Figures

Figure 12. Eumecostylus and Placostylus species. A, i Eumecostylus hargravesi (Cox, 1871), lectotype NHM 1880.12.11.43 (H = 65.0) B, ii Eumecostylus sanchristovalensis (Cox, 1870), lectotype NHM 1880.12.11.44 (H = 67.7) C, iii Placostylus cuninculinsulae (Cox, 1872), lectotype NHM 1880.12.11.47 (H = 41.6) D Placostylus ambagiosus Suter, 1906, paratype of Placostylus ambagiosus priscus Powell, 1938, NHM 1939.3.17.18 (H = 70.3).