Ampullaria virens

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 : 51

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Ampullaria virens Lamarck, 1822a: 179 View in CoL . Type material —probable type material: MHNG-INVE-51293 (formerly MHNG 1093/96) (4 spms.) ( Y. Finet pers. comm. 22 August 2002; see also Mermod 1952: 91). Type locality —[no locality given]. Distribution — China (Paetel 1888: 482), India ( Alderson 1925: 74; Subba Rao 1989: 60).

Remarks. Recorded from Singapore by Alderson (1925: 74) but not by Ng et al. (2014). Subvariety of globosa subspecies carinata variety layardi Reeve, teste Nevill (1885: 3). Valid species, teste G.B. Sowerby III (1910: 61) and Subba Rao (1989: 60), in Pila , followed here.

References

Alderson, E. G. (1925) Studies in Ampullaria. Heffer, Cambridge, xx + 102 pp., 19 pls.

Mermod, G. (1952) Les types de la collection Lamarck au Museum de Geneve. Mollusques vivants, III. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 59 (2), 23 - 97. [March; p. 23]

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]

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