Bulimus cathcartiae Reeve, 1848

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2011, Annotated type catalogue of the Amphibulimidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 138, pp. 1-52 : 14

Bulimus cathcartiae Reeve, 1848 Figs 11A-C, 11i

Bulimus cathcartiae Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 42 fig. 265.

Plekocheilus (Aeropictus) cathcartiae Breure 1978: 18, pl. 11 fig. 7 (lectotype designation); Breure 1979: 32; Borrero and Breure 2011: 13, fig. 5S-U.

Type locality.

"New Granada, Prov. Merida".

Label.

"New Granada". M.C. label type IV.

Dimensions.

Not given. Lectotype H 45.4, D 26.5, W 4.5.

Type material.

NHM 1975288, lectotype; 1975289, four paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The specimen figured by Reeve (fig. 265a-b) was designated lectotype by Breure (1978); the top of this shell is slightly damaged. One paralectotype corresponds to fig. 265c. The specimens are accompanied by a label in Pfeiffer's handwriting "Bul. pintadinus Orb.".

Current systematic position.

Amphibulimidae , Plekocheilus (Aeropictus) cathcartiae (Reeve, 1848).

Figures

Figure 11. Plekocheilus (Aeropictus) species. A-C, i Plekocheilus (Aeropictus) cathcartiae (Reeve, 1848), lectotype NHM 1975288 (H = 45.4) D-F, ii Plekocheilus (Aeropictus) latilabris (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHM 1975127 (H = 49.0) G-I, iii Plekocheilus (Aeropictus) quadricolor (Pfeiffer, 1848), lectotype NHM 1975283 (H = 30.3).