Bulimus marcidus Pfeiffer, 1853

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2014, Annotated type catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 392, pp. 1-367 : 96

Bulimus marcidus Pfeiffer, 1853 Figs 63I-J , L36v

Bulimus marcidus Pfeiffer 1853d: 435; Pfeiffer 1854 in Küster and Pfeiffer 1840-1865: 188, pl. 49 figs 11-12; Pfeiffer 1854a: 67.

Type locality.

”Brasilia”.

Label.

”Brazil”. M.C. label style I.

Dimensions.

"Long. 20, diam. 8 mill."; figured specimen herein H 18.0, D 8.4, W 5.9.

Type material.

NHMUK 20100649, three possible syntypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Pfeiffer based himself on material from Cuming’s collection, although his description was not published until 1854 ( Pfeiffer 1854a). The label bears no taxon name in Pfeiffer’s handwriting, but the specimens are treated herein as possible syntypes.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bulimulus marcidus (Pfeiffer, 1853).

Figures

Figure 63. Bulimulus species. A-B Bulimulus monachus (Pfeiffer, 1857), lectotype NHMUK 20100584 (H = 31.2) C-D Bulimulus guadalupensis (Bruguiere, 1789), lectotype of Bulimus rubrifasciatus Reeve, 1848 NHM 1975393 (H = 22.9) E-F Bulimulus corneous (Sowerby I, 1833), lectotype of Bulimus nubeculatus Pfeiffer, 1853 NHMUK 1975407 (H = 16.0) G-H Bulimulus transparens (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975397 (H = 18.4) I-J Bulimulus marcidus (Pfeiffer, 1853), possible syntype NHMUK 20100649 (H = 18.0) K-L Bulimulus turritellatus (Beck, 1838), paralectotype of Helix turritella d'Orbigny 1835 NHMUK 1854.12.4.166 (H = 19.3) M-P Bulimulus unicolor (Sowerby I, 1833) M-N lectotype of Bulimus petenensis Morelet, 1851 NHMUK 1893.2.4.1176 (H = 18.7) O-P Possible syntype of Bulimulus istapensis Crosse and Fischer, 1873 NHMUK 1893.2.4.1185 (H = 11.2). All enlarged.

Figure L 36. Labels. i Bulimus lusorius Pfeiffer, 1855 ii Bulimulus (Naesiotus) lycodus Dall, 1917 iii Bulimulus (Drymaeus) malleatus da Costa, 1898 iv Bulimus manupictus Reeve, 1848 v Bulimus marcidus Pfeiffer, 1853 vi Helix marmarina d'Orbigny, 1835.