Lanistes congicus

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 : 15

congicus

Lanistes congicus O. Boettger in Schepman, 1891: 111, pl. 8, figs. 1a–c [subsequently described as var. schepmani C.R. Boettger ], 2a–c. Type material — syntype: SMF 7455 (1 spm.). Type locality —“near the village Elau, on 2 days journey from San Salvador, Congo ”. Distribution —Northern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo ( Brown 1980: 50, 1994: 60).

Remarks. Name and description attributed to O. Boettger by Schepman (1891: 111). Boettger in Schepman (1891: 111) gave ranges of shell dimensions and Schepman (1891: 112) mentioned “ type specimens”, indicating that the description was based on more than one specimen. Kobelt (1912b: 40, pl. 30, figs. 2, 3) noted “Boettgers Typus ” as the shell illustrated in his pl. 30, figs. 2 and 3, and C.R. Boettger (1913: 104) also referred to Kobelt (1912b: pl. 30, figs. 2, 3) as having illustrated the “ Typus ”; neither of these statements constituted a lectotype designation as neither explicitly indicated selection of this specimen as the name-bearing type (Code, Art. 74.5). The specimen in SMF 7455 matches the illustration (R. Janssen pers. comm. 20 October 2013). Valid species, teste Kobelt (1912b: 39), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 188), Brown (1980: 50, 1994: 60) and Berthold (1991: 246), who all placed it in Lanistes s. str.

connollyi

Lanistes (Meladomus) connollyi Pain, 1954: 2 , figs. 1, 2. Type material — holotype [by original designation]: MCZ 173421; paratypes: MCZ 173422 (16 spms.), MCZ 173423 (1 spm.), MRAC 793978 (1 spm.), NMW.Z.1981.118.00112 (3 spms.), NMW.Z.1981.118.00233 (2 spms.), ZMA 136137 (2 spms.), ZMUC GAS 1720 (1 spm.). Type locality —“ Southern Rhodesia [= Zimbabwe]: Victoria Falls”.

Remarks. MCZ 173423 from “ Northern Rhodesia [= Zambia]: River Kafue, at N’kana, near the Congo border” ( Pain 1954: 2). Form but not a subspecies of ovum Troschel , teste Brown (1980: 52, 1994: 63), so here treated as a synonym. N. syn.