Bulimus mejillonensis Pfeiffer, 1857

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 : 97

Bulimus mejillonensis Pfeiffer, 1857 Figs 8C , L37iii

Bulimus mejillonensis Pfeiffer in Pfeiffer and Dunker 1857: 230; Breure 1979: 56.

Bostryx mejillonensis ; Breure 1978: 102 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

[Chile] "Mejillones in deserto Atacamensi".

Label.

"Desert of Atacama", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style III.

Dimensions.

"Long. 25, diam. 12 mill."; figured specimen herein H 24.1, D 12.8, W 6.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975322, lectotype; 1975323, two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Pfeiffer did not state on how many specimens his description was based. The current systematic position follows Richardson (1995).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bostryx mejillonensis (Pfeiffer, 1857).

Figures

Figure 8. Bostryx species. A Bostryx affinis (Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832), possible syntype NHMUK 20100610 (H = 27.5) B Bostryx huascensis (Reeve, 1848), lectotype NHMUK 1975159 (H = 19.1) C Bostryx mejillonensis (Pfeiffer, 1857), lectotype NHMUK 1975322 (H = 24.1) D Bostryx kathiae Breure, 1978, paratype NHMUK 1975228 (H = 17.5) E Bostryx obliquistriatus (da Costa, 1901), lectotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.41 (H = 28.9) E Bostryx rhololarynx papillatus (Morelet, 1860), syntype NHMUK 1893.2.4.192 (H = 22.7) G Bostryx rhololarynx rhodolarynx (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975434 (H = 34.5). All enlarged.

Figure L 37. Labels. i Bulimus martinicensis Pfeiffer, 1846 ii Bulimus meleagris Pfeiffer, 1853 iii Bulimus mejillonensis Pfeiffer in Pfeiffer and Dunker, 1857 iv Bulimus meridanus Pfeiffer, 1846 v Bostryx metagyra Pilsbry & Olsson, 1949 vi Bulimus mollicellus Reeve, 1849 vii Bulimus monachus Pfeiffer, 1857 viii Bulimulus (Bostryx) moniezi Dautzenberg, 1896 ix Bulimus montagnei d'Orbigny, 1837.