Buliminus nuptialis Melvill and Ponsonby, 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 : 19

Buliminus nuptialis Melvill and Ponsonby, 1894 Figs 6D-F, 6iii

Buliminus nuptialis Melvill and Ponsonby 1894: 92, pl. 1 fig. 5.

Prestonella nuptialis (Melvill and Ponsonby); Herbert 2007: 11, fig. 12-13.

Type locality.

[South Africa, Eastern Cape] "Craigie Burn, Somerset East (Mrs. Mary Layard Barber)".

Label.

"Craigie Burn, Somerset / East, S. Africa".

Dimensions.

"Long. 15, lat. 8.50 mill."; holotype H 14.6, D 9.82, W 4.4.

Type material.

NHMUK 1905.1.26.29, holotype, Mrs. Mary Layard Barber ( née Bowker) (ex E.L. Layard ex Ponsonby).

Remarks.

The data on the collector and the way this specimen has found its way to the NHMUK collection have been taken from Herbert (2007). The size of the specimen was erroneously given as "length 11.5 mm".

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Prestonella nuptialis (Melvill and Ponsonby, 1894).

Figures

Figure 6. Prestonella species. A-C, i Prestonella bowkeri (Sowerby, 1890), lectotype NHM 1889.11.4.9 (H = 19.6) D-F, iii Prestonella nuptialis (Melvill and Ponsonby, 1894), holotype NHM 1905.1.26.29 (H = 14.6) G-I, ii Prestonella quadingensis Connolly, 1929, paratype NHM 1937.12.30.7079 (H = 11.4).