Bulimus purpuratus Reeve, 1849

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 : 134-135

Bulimus purpuratus Reeve, 1849 Figs 71G-H , L50iii

Bulimus purpuratus Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 71 fig. 517; Reeve 1850: 98; Breure 1979: 86.

Bulimulus purpuratus ; Pilsbry 1897 [1897-1898]: 21, pl. 4 fig. 57.

Scutalus (Vermiculatus) purpuratus ; Breure 1978: 184 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

"Andes of Caxamarca, Peru; Mr. W. Lobb".

Label.

No locality (see remarks). M.C. label style IV, V.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 37.3, D 18.3, W 6.3.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975364, lectotype; 1975365, two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The locality on the registration card in the collection is "Andes of Catamarca"; the original label seems to be lost. The current systematic position follows Weyrauch (1967a) and Richardson (1995).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) purpuratus (Reeve, 1849) (comb. n.).

Figures

Figure 71. Kuschelenia species. A-B, I Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) peaki (Breure, 1978), paratype NHMUK 1975579 (H = 23.5) C-D, K Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) quechuarum (Crawford, 1939), holotype NHMUK 1939.4.17.226 (H = 21.5) E-F, J Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) ochracea (Morelet, 1863), lectotype NHMUK 1893.2.4.164 (N = 36.0) G-H Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) purpuratus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975364 (H = 37.3)

Figure L 50. Labels. i Drymaeus punctatus da Costa, 1907 ii Bulinus pupiformis Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832 iii Bulimus purpuratus Reeve, 1849 iv Bulinus pustulosus Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832 v Bulimus (Otostomus) quadrifasciatus Angas, 1878 vi Bulimus quitensis Pfeiffer, 1848.