Bulimus monachus Pfeiffer, 1857

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 31

Bulimus monachus Pfeiffer, 1857 Figs 16B, 16ii

Bulimus monachus Pfeiffer 1857b: 333; Pfeiffer 1869 [1866-1869]: 493, pl. 106 figs 9-10.

Drymaeus monachus ; Pilsbry 1898 [1897-1898]: 282, pl. 51 figs 22-23.

Type locality.

"Meobamba, Peru".

Label.

“Mejobamba”, in Albers’ handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 31, diam. 11 1/2 mill."; figured specimen herein H 24.2, D 12.0, W 6.3.

Type material.

ZMB 117773, one syntype; ex Albers coll. No. 587, ex Cuming coll.

Remarks.

This taxon was described from the Cuming collection and the type status of this specimen is herein not disputed. Other type material is in the NHMUK collection (Breure and Ablett, in preparation). The wrinkled protoconch sculpture, together with the corneous colour of the shell, reveals this taxon-classified within Drymaeus so far-belongs to the genus Bulimulus (comb. n.).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bulimulus monachus (Pfeiffer, 1857) (comb. n.).

Figures

Figure 16. A-B Bulimulus species A, i Bulimulus coriaceus (Pfeiffer, 1857) syntype ZMB 117767 (H = 12.9) B, ii Bulimulus monachus (Pfeiffer, 1857) syntype ZMB 117773 (H = 24.2) C, iii Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) jonasi (Pfeiffer, 1846) syntype ZMB 117769 (H = 21.5) D-F Cochlorina involuta (Martens, 1867), holotype ZMB 117768 (H = 15.2). All enlarged.