Bulimus iris Pfeiffer, 1853

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Megaspiridae, Orthalicidae, and Simpulopsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 470, pp. 17-143 : 32

Bulimus iris Pfeiffer, 1853 Figs 14iii-v, L10ii

Bulimus iris Pfeiffer 1853b: 313; Pfeiffer 1854b: 136; Pfeiffer 1855 in Küster and Pfeiffer 1840-1865: 244, pl. 65 figs 4-5.

Porphyrobaphe iris ; Pilsbry 1899: 157, pl. 51 figs 28-29.

Type locality.

"Le Ceja, Rio Negro Novae Granadae (Bland)".

Label.

"La Ceja. Rio Negro / New Grenada", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style I.

Dimensions.

"Long. 64, diam. 32 mill.". Figured specimen H 72.6, D 41.1, W 5.8.

Type material.

NHMUK 20100506, lectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Pfeiffer did not state on how many specimens his description was based, but described the species from "Mus. Cuming". Although the specimen is larger than the measurements given by Pfeiffer, there is little doubt it is from the original series as the label confirms the original locality; it also bears the text "please to name this / ' Blandi ' after the collector". The specimen is now designated lectotype (design. n.) to fixate this taxon, which needs further study to clarify its status. The mentioning in Linares and Vera (2012: 157) of "ZMUZ 511864" as lectotype for this taxon is erroneous, as this refers to the type specimen of the junior subjective synonym Bulimus wallisianus Mousson, 1873 (see Breure 1976: 3). The current systematic position follows Richardson (1993: 119).

Current systematic position.

Orthalicidae , Porphyrobaphe (Porphyrobaphe) iris (Pfeiffer, 1853).