Helix lusitanica

Cowie, Robert H., 2015, The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda, Zootaxa 3940 (1), pp. 1-92 : 58

lusitanica

Helix lusitanica Linnaeus, 1767: 1245 . Type material —possible syntype: LSL (1 spm.). Type locality —“Europa australi”.

Remarks. Lamarck (1822a: 178) placed lusitanica Linnaeus in the synonymy of his new species guinaica Lamarck (now in Lanistes ), as did Philippi (1852a: 28), although with doubt, and Gaudion (1880: 31). Listed in Ampullaria and as from Guinea by Jay (1850: 282) and Paetel (1887: 479). However, Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 188), while listing it as a valid species in Lanistes , stated that it “was based upon a specimen of Zonites algirus [ Pulmonata : Zonitidae Mörch ], according to Hanley, although Linnaeus referred to a figure of Lanistes carinatus (Olivier) in Gualtieri as illustrating his species”. Haas (1936: 35) considered it undeterminable. The shell in LSL is not an ampullariid.