Lanistes zambesianus, Furtado, 1886

Cowie, Robert H. & Héros, Virginie, 2012, Annotated catalogue of the types of Ampullariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with lectotype designations, Zoosystema 34 (4), pp. 793-824 : 819

zambesianus Furtado, 1886 , Lanistes

( Fig. 7F )

Lanistes zambesianus Furtado, 1886: 148-150 , pl. 7, figs 1, 1a-b.

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Lanistes . Synonym of L. ellipticus Martens, 1866 ( Connolly 1912: 257) .

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype MNHN 4525 , by monotypy ( ICZN 1999 b: art. 73.1.2).

TYPE LOCALITY. — “Fleuve Zambèse, au-dessous de Tete ” [ Mozambique].

REMARKS

Furtado stated that the description was based on a single specimen. The specimen corresponds with the original illustration and with the size given by Furtado. Listed as the holotype by Fischer-Piette (1950: 155).

Figures

FIG. 7. — A, Ampullaria simplicula Mabille,1889,lectotype MNHN 4520, 29.1 mm;B, Lanistes ellipticus var.β trapeziformis Furtado,1886, lectotype MNHN 23089, 52.8 mm;C, Ampullaria violacea Valenciennes,1833,holotype MNHN 4530, 43.1 mm;D, Ampullaria virescens Deshayes in Bory de Saint-Vincent,1824,holotype MNHN 24513,54.7 mm (also lectotype of Ampullaria polita Deshayes,1830);E, Ampullaria wellesleyensis Morgan,1885,lectotype MNHN 24514, 34.1 mm; F, Lanistes zambesianus Furtado,1886,holotype MNHN 4525, 55.6 mm; G, Ampullaria zonata d’Orbigny, 1835, syntype MNHN 4523, 38.2 mm (also lectotype of Ampullaria spixii d’Orbigny, 1838).