Liparus spenceri Tate, 1894

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 : 23

Liparus spenceri Tate, 1894 Figs 2J-K, 2v

Liparus spenceri Tate 1894: 192; Tate 1896: 202, pl. 17 fig. 3; B.J. Smith 1992: 107.

Type locality.

[Northern Territory, near Alice Springs] "Glen of Palms by the junction with Palm Creek" ( Tate 1896: 202).

Label.

"Glen of Palms", presumably in Tate’s handwriting.

Dimensions. "Length, 20; width 12.5 (...) mm"; specimen figured herein H 17.5, D 12.2, W 4.4.

Type material.

NHMUK 1895.10.1.202-207, six paratypes (ex W.A. Horn).

Remarks.

This material was collected during the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia (1894). Three of the specimens are subadult or juvenile. Further type material is present in the South Australia Museum in Adelaide ( Breure and Whisson in press).

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon spenceri (Tate, 1894).

Figures

Figure 2. Bothriembryon species. A-B, iii Bothriembryon angasianus (Pfeiffer, 1864), syntype NHM 1870.10.26.276 (H = 20.6) C-E, ii Bothriembryon brazieri (Angas, 1871, lectotype NHM 1870.11.5.8 (H = 14.3) E detail of sculpture (x 3.5) F-G, i Bothriembryon kingii (J. E. Gray, 1825), lectotype NHM 1975910 (H = 19.1) H-I, iv Bothriembryon melo (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832), lectotype of Bulimus physoides Reeve, 1848 NHM 1975224 (H = 19.2) J-K, v Bulimus spenceri (Tate, 1894), syntype NHM 1895.10.2.202 (H = 17.5).