Pupa spixii major d’Orbigny, 1837

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2016, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (1), pp. 57-103 : 74

Pupa spixii major d’Orbigny, 1837

Fig. 122

Helix spixii [var.] major d’Orbigny, 1835 : 21 [nomen nudum].

Pupa spixii [var. α] major d’Orbigny, 1837 [1834-1847]: 320. – Breure & Ablettt, 2012: 25, figs 22A-E, 22i.

Pupa spixii (d’Orbigny) . – Gray, 1854: 23 [partim].

Spixia striata (Spix) . – Breure, 1975: 1158 [partim].

Type locality: “... pays habité par les Guarayos, au sein des forêts humides des frontières nord de la province de Chiquitos (république de Bolivia), et dans la province de Corrientes (république Argentine), en un bois voisin de la rivière de Santa-Lucia, au lieu dit ‘Pasto reito’”; see Breure, 1973: 122.

Label: “ Corrientes ”, in Moricand’s handwriting.

Dimensions: “Long. var. A, 35 millim., (...) Lat. var. A, 12 millim.”; figured specimen herein H 34.6, D 9.66, W 12.1.

Type material: MHNG-INVE-64662, 11 paralectotypes (ex d’Orbigny, Moricand coll.).

Remarks: In d’Orbigny (1835) only the name of this taxon is mentioned, together with a locality, thus it was invalidly published. The first valid publication is in d’Orbigny, 1837 [1834-1847], where only a brief description was given but no figures of the ventral view of the shell (only a side view of a living snail). There is no explicit mentioning of “ var. major ” on the label, as d’Orbigny has done with varieties of other taxa; the only link are the localities quoted in his original paper. The lectotype is in NHMUK ( Breure & Ablett, 2012).

Current systematic position: Odontostomidae , Spixia striata (Spix, 1827) .

Figures

Figs 113-126. Odontostomidae. (113-114) Bahiensis bahiensis (S. Moricand, 1834), syntype, MHNG-INVE-64638 (H = 18.5). (115-117) Tomigerus clausus (Spix, 1827), syntype of Helix (Cochlodonta) tomigera S. Moricand, 1836, MHNG- INVE-64717 (H = 10.1). (118-121) Biotocus turbinatus (Pfeiffer, 1845), syntype of Helix tomigeroides S. Moricand, 1846, MHNG-INVE-64718 (H = 11.4). (122) Spixia striata (Spix, 1827), paralectotype of Pupa spixii major d’Orbigny, 1837, MHNG-INVE-64662 (H = 34.6). (123-124) Burringtonia pantagruelina (S. Moricand, 1834), (123) syntype, MHNG-INVE-64695 (H = 52.9), (124) syntype of Helix (Cochlodina) pantagruelina minor S. Moricand, 1836, MHNG-INVE-64698 (H = 45.1). (125) Cyclodontina inflata (Wagner in Spix, 1827), specimen from original series of Bulimus scabrellus ‘Anthony’ Dohrn, 1882, MHNG-INVE-64686 (H = 19.7). (126) Plagiodontes patagonicus (d’Orbigny, 1835), paralectotype, MHNG-INVE-64708 (H = 22.2).