Bulimus gelidus 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 : 65-66

Bulimus gelidus Reeve, 1849 Figs 62C-D , L25ii

Bulimus gelidus Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 76 fig. 555; Breure 1978: 142; Breure 1979: 62 (lectotype designation); Miquel 1991: 98, fig. 25.

Bulimulus gelidus ; Breure 2008: 245, figs 6-7 [not 8]; see remarks.

Type locality.

"Central America".

Label.

"C. America". M.C. label style I, V.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 32.5, D 15.0, W 7.7.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975402, lectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

On the back of the cardboard a handwriting in pencil has noted "seems to be the same as monte-vidensis Pfr.". Miquel (1991) placed this taxon is the synonymy of Syphalomphix bonariensis Rafinesque, 1833, a species from Argentina. However, it must be noted that most Bulimulus species are very similar and often hard to tell apart. Reconsidering the identification made in Breure (2008), we now disagree with him, as the Ecuadorian shells have different dimensions, and the last whorl is less globose than in the lectotype of Bulimus gelidus . The locality on the label may be erroneous, and Reeve’s taxon is herein considered as nomen inquirendum.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bulimulus . Nomen inquirendum.

Figures

Figure 62. Bulimulus species. A-B Bulimulus effeminatus (Reeve, 1848), lectotype NHMUK 1975508 (H = 31.1) C-D Bulimulus gelidus (Reeve, 1849) [nomen inquirendum], lectotype NHMUK 1975402 (H = 32.5) E-F Bulimulus heloicus (d'Orbigny, 1835), syntype NHMUK 1854.12.4.164 (H = 25.6) G-H Bulimulus inutilis (Reeve, 1850), lectotype NHMUK 1975162 (H = 16.5) I-J Bulimulus unicolor (Sowerby I, 1833), lectotype of Bulimus ignavus Reeve, 1849 (H = 17.1) K-L Bulimulus dysoni (Pfeiffer, 1846), syntype NHMUK 1975453 (H = 19.2). All enlarged.

Figure L 25. Labels. i Bulimus gayi Pfeiffer, 1857 ii Bulimus gelidus Reeve, 1849 iii Bulimus (Mesembrinus) gealei H. Adams, 1867 iv Bulimus geometricus Pfeiffer, 1846 v Bulimus columbiensis Pfeiffer, 1855 = Bulimus gratus Pfeiffer, 1856 vi Bulimus gueinzii Pfeiffer, 1857 vii Bulimus gruneri Pfeiffer, 1846.