Ampullaria aperta

Cowie, Robert H., 2015, The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda, Zootaxa 3940 (1), pp. 1-92 : 53

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Ampullaria aperta Philippi, 1849b: 18 [1851: 14, pl. 3, fig. 5]. Type material —possible syntypes: MNHNCL 15896 (1 spm., old number 61.037), MNHNCL 15935 (1 spm., old number 61.037). Type locality —[no locality given]. Distribution — Venezuela ( Paetel 1873: 64, 1887: 476; Gaudion 1880: 24) or Burma / Myanmar ( Nevill 1885: 4; Prashad 1925: 88; Subba Rao 1989: 61).

Remarks. Nevill (1877: 6; 1885: 4) seems to have been the first to identify specimens from Burma / Myanmar as aperta Philippi , considering his specimens to be the same as those illustrated as saxea Reeve and an un-named variety of it by Hanley & Theobald (1874: pl. 115, figs. 3, 4). However, he did not discuss the original description of Philippi (1849b: 18) nor Philippi’s subsequent description and illustrations ( Philippi 1851: 14, pl. 3, fig. 5); the basis for Nevill’s identification of his specimens and the figures of Hanley & Theobald as aperta Philippi is therefore not clear. Nonetheless, Nevill’s identification was accepted with no further question by G.B. Sowerby III (1910: 57) and Prashad (1925: 88), the latter placing aperta Philippi in Turbinicola . Prashad was in turn followed by Subba Rao (1989: 61) and Berthold (1991: 22), the latter synonymizing Turbinicola with Pila . On this basis, Cowie & Thiengo (2003: 80) treated aperta Philippi as a non-American species. All these interpretations rely on the original identification by Nevill. However, two possible syntypes in MNHNCL, of which Cowie & Thiengo (2003: 80) were not aware, are labelled as from Venezuela and have non-calcified opercula; and Paetel (1873: 64, 1887: 476) and Gaudion (1880: 24) listed the species as from Venezuela. It is therefore possible that aperta Philippi is in fact a New World species.

References

Berthold, T. (1991) Vergleichende Anatomie, Phylogenie und historische Biogeographie der Ampullariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, NF, 29, 1 - 256.

Cowie, R. H. & Thiengo, S. C. (2003) The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): a nomenclatural and type catalog. Malacologia, 45 (1), 41 - 100. [29 August; Malacologia 46 (1); un-numbered page at end of issue]

Gaudion, H. (1880) Liste alphabetique des especes du genre Ampullaria de Lamarck. Bulletin de la Societe d'Etude des Sciences naturelles de Beziers, 4 [for 1879], 20 - 43. [1880 on title page of volume]

Nevill, G. (1877) Catalogue of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Fasciculus E. Indian Museum, Calcutta, [iv] + 42 pp. [after 1 July; prefatory note]

Nevill, G. (1885) Hand list of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Part II. Gastropoda. Prosobranchia-Neurobranchia (contd.). Indian Museum, Calcutta, x + 306 pp. [after 25 January; preface]

Paetel, F. (1873) Catalog der Conchylien-Sammlung von Fr. Paetel. Nebst Uebersicht des angewandten Systems. Gebruder Paetel, Berlin, [i] + 172 pp. [April or later; date of Vorwort] http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 13163

Philippi, R. A. (1849 b) Centuria tertia testaceorum novorum (Contin.). Zeitschrift fur Malakozoologie, 6 (2), 17 - 26. [May; last page of issue]

Philippi, R. A. (1851 - [1852]) Die Gattung Ampullaria. In: Kuster, H. C. (Ed.), Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Neu herausgegeben und vervollstandigt. Ersten Bandes zwanzigste Abtheilung. Bauer & Raspe, Nurnberg [= Nuremberg], pp. 1 - 74, pls. A, 1 - 21.

Prashad, B. (1925) Revision of the Indian Ampullariidae. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 8 (2), 69 - 89, pls. 13 - 15. [May; title page of issue]

Subba Rao, N. V. (1989) Handbook freshwater molluscs of India. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, xxiii + 289 pp., 98 unnumbered pls. [September; p. ii]