Bulimus loxensis Pfeiffer, 1846

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 26-27

Bulimus loxensis Pfeiffer, 1846 Figs 17F-G, 17vi

Bulimus loxensis Pfeiffer 1846: 85; Breure 1979: 121 (lectotype designation).

Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) loxensis ; Breure and Eskens 1981: 77. pl. 7 fig. 6.

Type locality.

[Ecuador, Prov. Loja] "El Catamaija prope Loxa reipublica Aequatoris. (Hartweg in coll. Cuming)".

Label.

"Republ. equador Loxa", in Albers’ handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 35, diam. 14 mill."; figured specimen herein H 24.7, D 11.5, W 5.7.

Type material.

ZMB 117772, one syntype; ex Albers coll. No. 131, ex Cuming coll.

Remarks.

The material originates from the Cuming collection and has the locality nearly in the same wording; the type status of this specimen is not disputed herein. Further type material is in the NHMUK collection (Breure and Ablett, in preparation).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) loxensis (Pfeiffer, 1846).

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).