Limnaeus elgonensis, Preston

Vinarski, Maxim V., 2016, Annotated type catalogue of lymnaeid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (1), pp. 131-152 : 141-142

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

elgonensis Preston Fig. 56

Limnaea elgonensis Preston (? in MS).

Material.

A single specimen kept under No. 62871. Its shell height is 12.0 mm.

Type locality.

Uganda, Mt. Elgon. leg. Preston.

Current taxonomic allocation.

Probably, a junior synonym of Radix natalensis .

Remark.

I could not find the original description of this species in Preston’s works devoted to new taxa of African land and freshwater mollusks ( Preston 1910a, b, 1911, 1912, 1913). Preston introduced several tens of species names, including those with the species epithet " elgonensis " (for instance, Ledoulxia elgonensis Preston, 1914, family Urocyclidae Simroth, 1899), however among lymnaeid taxa described by him the species name Lymnaea (or Limnaea ) elgonensis is absent. Both Hubendick (1951) and Brown (1994), in their comprehensive works dealing with the African Lymnaeidae , do not mention such a species. I am not sure Preston ever described it formally.