Helix lithoica d'Orbigny , 1835

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 : 91

Helix lithoica d'Orbigny, 1835 Figs 67A-B , 67K , L34vii

Helix lithoica d’Orbigny 1835: 13; Breure 1979: 88.

Bulimus lithoicus d’Orbigny 1837 [1834-1847]: 288, pl. 33 figs 10-11 [19 June / 7 Aug 1837; text 6 May 1838]; Gray 1854: 18.

Bulimulus (Scuatlus) lithoicus ; Crawford 1939: 328.

Scutalus culmineus lithoicus ; Breure 1975b: 1143, pl. 3 fig. 1 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

"provincia Pazensi (republica Boliviana)".

Label.

"La Paz. Bolivia", in d’Orbigny’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Longit 15 millim.; latit. 35 millim. [sic, H 35, D 15 mm]"; figured specimen herein H 34.3, D 17.1, W 6.4.

Type material.

NHMUK 1854.12.4.197, six paralectotypes ( d’Orbigny coll.).

Remarks.

d’Orbigny (1838 [1834-1847]: 288) specified the type locality as "descendant de la ville de la Paz vers le petit bourg de los Obrages"; see Breure 1973: 129. The current systematic position at species level follows Richardson (1995).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) culminea culminea ( d’Orbigny, 1835) (comb. n.).

Figures

Figure 67. Kuschelenia species. A-B, K Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) culminea culminea (d'Orbigny, 1835), paralectotype of Helix lithoica d'Orbigny, 1835 NHMUK 1854.12.4.197 (H = 34.3) C-D, L Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) culminea edwardsi (Morelet, 1863), syntype NHMUK 1893.2.4.177 (H = 25.4) E-G, M Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) gayi (Pfeiffer, 1857) E-F lectotype NHMUK 1975382 (H = 27.7) G syntype of Helix thamnoica var. C d'Orbigny, 1835 NHMUK 1854.12.4.110 (H = 32.2) H-J Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) bicolor (Sowerby I, 1835) H-I lectotype resp. paralectotype of Helix polymorpha d'Orbigny, 1835 NHMUK 1854.12.4.199 (H = 23.6 resp. 21.2) J possible syntype of Bulinus badius Sowerby I 1835 NHMUK 20100631 (H = 25.8). All enlarged.

Figure L 34. Labels. i Helix lichnorum d'Orbigny, 1835 ii Helix limonoica d'Orbigny, 1835 iii Bulimus lilacinus Reeve, 1849 iv Helix linostoma d'Orbigny, 1835 v Bulimus limensis Reeve, 1849 vi Bulimus liquabilis Reeve, 1848 vii Helix lithoica d'Orbigny, 1835 viii Bulimus lirinus Morelet, 1851 ix Bulimus lividus Reeve, 1850.