Bulimus insignis Petit de la Saussaye, 1850

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 21

Bulimus insignis Petit de la Saussaye, 1850 Figs 11B, 11ii

Bulimus insignis Petit de la Saussaye 1850: 57, pl. 3 fig. 1.

Type locality.

"nous cryons appartenir à la Nouvelle-Calédonie”; see remarks.

Label.

“oc:pacif:”, in Petit’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 65 mill."; specimen figured herein H 61.9, D 31.5, W 6.8.

Type material.

ZMB 117762, one syntype; ex Albers coll. No. 375, ex Petit.

Remarks.

Petit did not mention on how many specimens his description was based upon; however, since he mentions a variety, he must have seen more than one specimen. Although the original label does not mention the published locality, Petit suggested explicitly New Caledonia in his paper. Therefore, the type status is not disputed. The current systematic position is after Neubert et al. (2009: 53), who considered the type material "very probably lost".

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae , Placostylus fibratus fibratus (Martyn, 1784).

Figures

Figure 11. Placostylus species A, i Placocharis fibratus souvillei (Morelet, 1857), syntype of Bulimus eximius Albers, 1857 ZMB 117761 (H = 119.1) B, ii Placocharis fibratus fibratus (Martyn, 1784), syntype of Bulimus insignis Petit, 1850 ZMB 117762 (H = 61.9)