Zebra sphinx turrita Strebel, 1909

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 50-51

Zebra sphinx turrita Strebel, 1909 Figs 27C-D, 27ii

Zebra sphinx turrita Strebel 1909: 68, pl. 12 fig. 180.

Type locality.

"Tres Marias (...) Insel gegenüber San Blas, W.-Mexiko".

Label.

"Tres Marias", with a second, taxon label in Strebel’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"56,9 × (25,5)30,5 [H × (Dmin)Dmax in mm]"; figured specimen herein H 56.9, D 28.7, W 6.7.

Type material.

ZMB 117784, holotype; Forrer leg.

Remarks.

Strebel described this taxon from a single specimen in the "Berl. Museum". The shell corresponds to Strebel’s figure 180, and is regarded as holotype. The current systematic position follows Thompson (2011), who recognizes this taxon as subspecifically distinct from Orthalicus sphinx sphinx (Strebel, 1909). He also noticed that Strebel had introduced the name turrita three times under Zebra , but did not take any nomenclatorial actions. As the name [ Zebra sphinx ] turrita is preceded twice in Strebel’s work and is a junior homonym of Zebra quagga turrita Strebel, 1909 ( Strebel 1909: 42), I here introduce the replacement name tresmariae Breure nom. n.

Current systematic position. Orthalicidae, Orthalicus sphinx tresmariae (nom. n.).

Figures

Figure 27. Orthalicus species A-B, i Orthalicus sphinx sphinx (Strebel, 1909), syntype ZMB 101832 (H = 50.9) C-D, ii Orthalicus sphinx tresmariae Breure nom. n., holotype ZMB 117784 (H = 56.9).