Bulimus purpuratus Reeve, 1849

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2014, Annotated type catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 392, pp. 1-367 : 134-135

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.392.6328

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BD9A2512-CB43-4C7E-77AB-98102E0B843E

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scientific name

Bulimus purpuratus Reeve, 1849
status

 

Bulimus purpuratus Reeve, 1849 Figs 71G-H View Figure 71 , L50iii View Figure L50

Bulimus purpuratus Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 71 fig. 517; Reeve 1850: 98; Breure 1979: 86.

Bulimulus purpuratus ; Pilsbry 1897 [1897-1898]: 21, pl. 4 fig. 57.

Scutalus (Vermiculatus) purpuratus ; Breure 1978: 184 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

"Andes of Caxamarca, Peru; Mr. W. Lobb".

Label.

No locality (see remarks). M.C. label style IV, V.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 37.3, D 18.3, W 6.3.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975364, lectotype; 1975365, two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The locality on the registration card in the collection is "Andes of Catamarca"; the original label seems to be lost. The current systematic position follows Weyrauch (1967a) and Richardson (1995).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) purpuratus (Reeve, 1849) (comb. n.).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Bulimulidae

Genus

Bulimus

Loc

Bulimus purpuratus Reeve, 1849

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D. 2014
2014
Loc

Bulimus purpuratus

Reeve 1849
1849