Bulimus ptychostylus Pfeiffer, 1858

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 : 132

Bulimus ptychostylus Pfeiffer, 1858 Figs 57D-F , L49iv

Bulimus ptychostylus Pfeiffer 1858a: 256, pl. 42 fig. 7; Pilsbry 1898 [1897-1898]: 178, pl. 29 fig. 27; Breure 1979: 101.

Neopetraeus ptychostylus ; Breure 1978: 217, pl. 9 fig. 16.

Type locality.

"Province of Patas, Andes of Peru (Dr. Farris)".

Label.

"Province of Patas, / Andes of Peru /Dr. Farris", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style IV.

Dimensions.

"Long. 47, diam. 15 mill."; figured specimen herein H 46.7, D 19.7, W 5+.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975430, lectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The top of the lectotype is damaged. The current systematic position is in accordance with Richardson (1995).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Neopetraeus lobbii (Reeve, 1849).

Figures

Figure 57. Neopetraeus species. A-F Neopetraeus lobbii (Reeve, 1849) A-C lectotype NHMUK 1975431 (H = 44.3) D-F lectotype of Bulimus ptychostylus Pfeiffer, 1858 NHMUK 1975430 (H = 46.7) G-I Neopetraeus decussatus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype of Bulimus myristicus Reeve, 1849 NHMUK 1975433 (H = 40.3) J-L Neopetraeus platystomus (Pfeiffer, 1858), lectotype NHMUK 1975428 (H = 34.4). All enlarged.

Figure L 49. Labels. i Bulinus proteus Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832 ii Drymaeus pseudofusoides da Costa, 1906 iii Bulimus puellaris Reeve, 1850 iv Bulimus ptychostylus Pfeiffer, 1858 v Otostomus pulcherrimus H. Adams, 1867.