Cyclophorus subblaevigatus Blanford, 1869

Nantarat, Nattawadee, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Tongkerd, Piyoros, Ablett, Jonathan, Naggs, Fred & Panha, Somsak, 2014, An annotated catalogue of type specimens of the land snail genus Cyclophorus Monfort, 1810 (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoridae) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 411, pp. 1-56 : 23

Cyclophorus subblaevigatus Blanford, 1869

Cyclophorus subblaevigatus Blanford, 1869: 446, 447. Hanley and Theobald 1870: 16, pl. 34, fig. 7. Kobelt 1902: 133.

Type locality.

haud procul a Bhamo, ad ripas fluminis Iravadi [not far from the Bhamo, on the banks of the Iravadi River, Myanmar].

Type material.

Lectotype (design. n.), NHMUK 196550 ( Fig. 21C; D =46.1 mm, H=30.8 mm, W=5).

Remarks.

The term “nonnunquam” ( “sometimes”) in the original description of shell shape appears to imply that this taxon was based on more than one specimen although only one set of measurements was given in the original description. The use of "the type" in Hanley and Theobald (1870: 16) may not to constitute a valid lectotype designation because a label stating that it is the figured specimen is not in Hanley or Theobald’s hand and it is not clear if only one specimen was available to Hanley and Theobald. We therefore treat "the type" attribution as an invalid, inadvertent lectotype designation ( ICZN 1999: Art. 74.5). The single specimen in the NHM from the Blanford collection and figured in Hanley and Theobald (1870: pl. 34, fig. 7), is here designated as the lectotype.

Figures

Figure 21. Types of Cyclophorus species. A, B Cyclophorus spironema (Pfeiffer, 1855) A lectotypes NHMUK 20130083 / 1, and B paralectotype NHMUK 20130083 / 2 - 3 C Cyclophorus subblaevigatus Blanford, 1869, lectotype NHMUK 196550 D Cyclophorus taeniatus (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHMUK 20130120 E Cyclophorus talboti Godwin-Austen, 1889, lectotype NHMUK 1889.12.7.7.