Bulimus loxensis Pfeiffer, 1846

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 : 93

Bulimus loxensis Pfeiffer, 1846 Figs 22I , L35v

Bulimus loxensis Pfeiffer 1846c: 85; Pfeiffer 1848b: 203; Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 40 fig. 251; Breure 1979: 121 (lectotype designation).

Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) loxensis ; Breure and Eskens 1981: 77, pl. 7 fig. 6.

Type locality.

[Ecuador] "El Catamaija prope Loxa reipublicae Aequatoris (Hartweg in coll. Cuming)".

Label.

"from El Catamaija / near Loxa. Republic of / the Equator. 4 South Lat / on Bushes. Mr Hartweg", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style I, V.

Dimensions.

"Long. 35, diam. 14 mill."; figured specimen herein H 34.7, D 14.2, W 7.3.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975553, lectotype; 1975554, two paralectotypes, Hartweg leg. (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The current systematic position follows Richardson (1995).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) loxensis (Pfeiffer, 1846).

Figures

Figure 22. Drymaeus species. A Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) granadensis (Pfeiffer, 1848), lectotype of Bulimus incarnatus Pfeiffer, 1855 NHMUK 1975566 (H = 30.7) B Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) pertristis Pilsbry, 1898, syntype of Bulimus tristis Pfeiffer, 1855 NHMUK 1975299 (H = 29.3) C Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) depictus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975529 (H = 27.9) D Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) trimarianus (Martens, 1893), lectotype NHMUK 1901.6.22.950 (H = 31.5) E Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) electrum (Reeve, 1848), lectotype NHMUK 1975510 (H = 29.6) F Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) serperastrus (Say, 1830), lectotype of Bulimus nitelinus Reeve, 1849 NHMUK 20100570 (H = 29.4) G Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) dutaillyi (Pfeiffer, 1857), lectotype NHMUK 1975516 (H = 30.8) H Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) moricandi (Pfeiffer, 1847), lectotype NHMUK 1975212 (H = 23.6) I Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) loxensis (Pfeiffer, 1846), lectotype NHMUK 1975553 (H = 34.7) J Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) meridanus (Pfeiffer, 1846), syntype NHMUK 1975523 (H = 35.9). All enlarged.

Figure L 35. Labels. i Bulimus lobbii Reeve, 1849 ii Helix lophoica d'Orbigny, 1835 iii Bulimus longinquus Morelet, 1863 iv Otostomus loxanus Higgins, 1872 v Bulimus loxensis Pfeiffer, 1846 vi Bulimulus (Drymaeus) lucidus Da Costa, 1898 vii Bulimus luridus Pfeiffer, 1863 viii Bulimus lucidus Reeve, 1848.