Bulimus livescens Pfeiffer, 1842

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 25-26

Bulimus livescens Pfeiffer, 1842 Figs 17E, 17iii

Bulimus livescens Pfeiffer 1842: 48; Pfeiffer 1848: 175.

Type locality.

“Mexico”.

Label.

“Mexico”, in Albers’ handwriting.

Dimensions. "Long. 22, diam. 10 mill."; figured specimen herein H 22.5, D 9.7, W 7.0.

Type material.

ZMB 117771, one probable syntype; ex Albers coll. No. 528, Hegewisch leg.

Remarks.

Pfeiffer (1842) mentioned "Hegewisch in litt.", which points to Hegewisch as the collector of the material described by Pfeiffer. As Albers had the same source, and the dimensions closely match those given by Pfeiffer (given as "Long. 23, diam. 9 mill." in Pfeiffer 1848), there is little doubt about the type status. The shell is not fully grown. The current systematic position is after Thompson (2011).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) livescens (Pfeiffer, 1842).

Figures

Figure 17. Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) species A-B, i Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) bahamensis (Pfeiffer, 1862), syntype ZMB 25727 (H = 29.4) C-D, ii Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) flavidus (Menke, 1829) probable syntype ZMB 10338 (H = 23.4) E, iii Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) livescens (Pfeiffer, 1842), probable syntype ZMB 117771 (H = 22.5) F-G, vi Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) loxensis (Pfeiffer, 1846), syntype ZMB 117772 (H = 24.7) H, v Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) moussoni (Pfeiffer, 1853), syntype ZMB 117774 (H = 23.5) I, iv Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) translucens (Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I, 1832), probable syntype ZMB 117778 (H = 13.3).