Bulimus physoides Reeve, 1849

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2012, Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 182, pp. 1-70 : 20

Bulimus physoides Reeve, 1849 Figs 2H-I, 2iv

Bulimus physoides Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 70 fig. 507.

Bulimus (Liparus) physoides Reeve; E.A. Smith 1894: 95, pl. 7 fig. 30.

Type locality.

“-?”.

Label.

"W. Australia", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style III.

Dimensions.

Not given. Specimen figured herein H 19.2, D 11.22, W 5.0.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975224-1975225, three possible syntypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Reeve (legend to pl. 70: "Mus. Pfeiffer") evidently based his description on material from Pfeiffer, who referred to " physodes (Menke mss.)"; this species was published as such by Menke (1843: 7), and Reeve’s name is therefore probably an emendation of Menke’s name. However, as Menke’s material is presumably lost (B.J. Smith 1992: 105), these specimens are interesting, since they may have originated via Pfeiffer from Menke’s collection.

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon melo (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832).

Figures

Figure 2. Bothriembryon species. A-B, iii Bothriembryon angasianus (Pfeiffer, 1864), syntype NHM 1870.10.26.276 (H = 20.6) C-E, ii Bothriembryon brazieri (Angas, 1871, lectotype NHM 1870.11.5.8 (H = 14.3) E detail of sculpture (x 3.5) F-G, i Bothriembryon kingii (J. E. Gray, 1825), lectotype NHM 1975910 (H = 19.1) H-I, iv Bothriembryon melo (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832), lectotype of Bulimus physoides Reeve, 1848 NHM 1975224 (H = 19.2) J-K, v Bulimus spenceri (Tate, 1894), syntype NHM 1895.10.2.202 (H = 17.5).