Bothriembryon esperantia Iredale, 1939

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Whisson, Corey S., 2012, Annotated type catalogue of Bothriembryon (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in Australian museums, with a compilation of types in other museums, ZooKeys 194, pp. 41-80 : 45

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.194.2721

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C56304B6-F6F7-2043-54C6-6E66B44D84A0

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scientific name

Bothriembryon esperantia Iredale, 1939
status

 

Bothriembryon esperantia Iredale, 1939 Fig. 6B View Figure 6

Bothriembryon esperantia Iredale 1939: 21, pl. 2 fig. 8; Wells 1977: 53; B.J. Smith 1992: 103.

Type locality.

[Western Australia] “Esperance”.

Label.

"Esperance / WA".

Dimensions.

"Length 23 mm., breadth 15 mm"; figured specimen H 23.9, D 15.0, W 5.2.

Type material.

AM C48681, 40+ syntypes; AM C100731, syntype; MV F333, 36 syntypes; MV F26930, four syntypes; WAM S15146, four syntypes.

Remarks.

Iredale gives two sets of measurements ("The largest measures 26 mm. by 16 mm."), but does not mention the total number of specimens he examined.

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon esperantia Iredale, 1939.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Bothriembryontidae

Genus

Bothriembryon

Loc

Bothriembryon esperantia Iredale, 1939

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Whisson, Corey S. 2012
2012
Loc

Bothriembryon esperantia

Iredale 1939
1939