Porphyrobaphe vicaria Fulton, 1896

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Megaspiridae, Orthalicidae, and Simpulopsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 470, pp. 17-143 : 47-48

Porphyrobaphe vicaria Fulton, 1896 Figs 20i-ii, L18i

Bulimus labeo Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 71 fig. 207b, pl. 72 fig. 207c. Not Bulimus labeo Broderip, 1828.

Porphyrobaphe vicaria Fulton 1896: 103.

Type locality.

"Leimabamba, Peru, 8000 feet (O.T. Baron)".

Label.

"Limabambo Peru". M.C. label style IV.

Dimensions.

Not given. Figured specimen H 82.2, D 46.7, W 6.3+.

Type material.

NHMUK 20100507, holotype, Lobb leg. (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Fulton mentioned "[t]ype in British Museum (Cuming Collection)", and said his taxon had been figured by Reeve. Reeve wrote: "It is with much gratification that I am enabled to give an original figure of the Bulimus labeo , figured at. Pl. XXXV, from a figure in the Zoological Journal. This shell, from the Cumingian collection, which I take to be identical with the lost specimen [see Pain 1959] (...). It was collected by Mr. Lobb at Limabamba, Peru; a district seldom visited by travellers, and the same in which Lieut. Mawe obtained the original specimen." From this text it may be concluded that Reeve had only seen one specimen, identical to the lost type of Broderip; Reeve’s shell is thus the holotype of Fulton’s taxon. It is also clear that the altitude and collector data given by Fulton are erroneous. The current systematic position at species level follows Richardson (1993: 128).

Current systematic position.

Orthalicidae , Sultana (Metorthalicus) yatesi (Pfeiffer, 1855).