Placostylus porphyrostomus elata Dautzenberg, 1923

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2011, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Royal Belgian Institute of Sciences, Brussels, with descriptions of two new species, ZooKeys 101, pp. 1-50 : 14

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.101.1133

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/520A693A-48D7-FE6A-A5D7-10F5E7A023E3

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scientific name

Placostylus porphyrostomus elata Dautzenberg, 1923
status

 

Placostylus porphyrostomus elata Dautzenberg, 1923 View in CoL Figs 9A, 9i

Placostylus porphyrostomus elata Dautzenberg 1923: 148; Neubert et al. (2009): 79, 80.

Type locality.

“Nouvelle-Calédonie, St. Vincent (Coll. D. ex Rossiter)".

Label.

"St. Vincent", in Dautzenberg’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"hauteur 88 millim. Diam. max. 36 millim."; lectotype H 86.3, D 37.8, W 7.3.

Type material.

RBINS/MT702, lectotype (design. n.), Rossiter leg. (Dautzenberg coll.).

Remarks.

The specimen was marked by Dautzenberg as “type”. As he did not state how many specimens he had seen, the shell is here designated lectotype. Neubert et al. (2009) have placed this taxon in the synonymy of the nominate form of Placostylus porphyrostomus (Pfeiffer, 1851).

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae , Placostylus porphyrostomus (Pfeiffer, 1851).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

SuperFamily

Orthalicoidea

Family

Bothriembryontidae

Genus

Placostylus