Bulimus achilles Pfeiffer, 1853

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Megaspiridae, Orthalicidae, and Simpulopsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 470, pp. 17-143 : 18

Bulimus achilles Pfeiffer, 1853 Figs 1i-ii, L1i

Bulimus achilles Pfeiffer 1853b: 378; Pfeiffer 1854b: 137; Pfeiffer 1855 in Küster and Pfeiffer 1840-1865: 247, pl. 66 fig. 9; Breure 1979: 44.

Thaumastus (Thaumastus) taunaisii achilles ; Breure 1978: 32 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

[Brazil] "in ripis fluvii Amazonum".

Label.

"Banks of Amazon", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style IV.

Dimensions.

"Long. 57, diam. 25 mill.". Figured specimen H 58.0, D 25.5, W 6.4.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975268, lectotype, 1975269, 2 paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Pfeiffer did not state on how many specimens his description was based, but the species was described from the Cuming collection. The original label also mentions "between B. Largilliertii / + taunasii"; a label in a second (later?) hand has added "Prov. S. Paulo, Brazil / (Nehring)".The current systematic position is according to Richardson (1995: 384).

Current systematic position.

Megaspiridae , Thaumastus taunaisii ( Férussac, 1822).