Zebra sphinx 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 : 44-45

Zebra sphinx Strebel, 1909 Figs 27A-B, 27i

Zebra sphinx Strebel 1909: 66, pl. 12 figs 181, 185.

Type locality.

"Tepic (...) Colima (...) West-Mexiko".

Label.

"Tepic NW Mexico", with a second, taxon label in Strebel’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"50,5 × (25,1)32,3 [H × (Dmin)Dmax in mm]"; figured specimen herein H 50.3, D 30.4, W 6.5.

Type material.

ZMB 101832, one syntype; W. Richardon leg.

Remarks.

Strebel described this taxon from five specimens from the same general region. The shell in the ZMB collection corresponds to Strebel’s figures 181 and 185. The current systematic position follows Thompson (2011), who seems to have restricted the type locality to Mexico, Edo. Nayarit, Tepic (stating "known only from the type locality").

Current systematic position.

Orthalicidae , Orthalicus sphinx sphinx (Strebel, 1909).

Figures

Figure 27. Orthalicus species A-B, i Orthalicus sphinx sphinx (Strebel, 1909), syntype ZMB 101832 (H = 50.9) C-D, ii Orthalicus sphinx tresmariae Breure nom. n., holotype ZMB 117784 (H = 56.9).