Bulimus edwardsi Morelet, 1863

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2014, Annotated type catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 392, pp. 1-367 : 53

Bulimus edwardsi Morelet, 1863 Figs 67C-D , 67L , L19vi

Bulimus edwardsi Morelet 1863: 182, pl. 9 fig. 1; Breure 1979: 88.

Bulimulus edwardsi ; Pilsbry 1897 [1897-1898]: 27, pl. 7 figs 11-13.

Type locality.

[Peru, Dept. Huancavelica] "le type (...) Huancabelica; la variété, (...) vallée de Huanta" [Dept. Ayacucho].

Label.

”Pérou Huanta", taxon label ( ”var.”) in Morelet’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Longit. 29; diam. 12 mill."; figured specimen herein H 25.4, D 13.3, W 5.7.

Type material.

NHMUK 1893.2.4.177-178, two syntypes (Morelet coll.).

Remarks.

Morelet considered this to be a variable taxon and distinguished explicitly a smaller variety "Testa minor, (...)". Crawford (1939: 329) compared the two specimens in NHMUK to Scutalus bicolor (Sowerby, 1835), and expressed doubts whether the variety is identical to typical edwardsi; the typical form is considered by him as a synonym of Scutalus culmineus ( d’Orbigny, 1835). With the current material at hand we prefer to treat Morelet’s material as a geographical form. Weyrauch (1967a: 386) considers Morelet’s taxon as a subspecies of Scutalus culmineus . This species is now placed in the genus Kuschelenia Hylton Scott, 1951.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) culmineus edwardsi (Morelet, 1863) (comb. n.).

Figures

Figure 67. Kuschelenia species. A-B, K Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) culminea culminea (d'Orbigny, 1835), paralectotype of Helix lithoica d'Orbigny, 1835 NHMUK 1854.12.4.197 (H = 34.3) C-D, L Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) culminea edwardsi (Morelet, 1863), syntype NHMUK 1893.2.4.177 (H = 25.4) E-G, M Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) gayi (Pfeiffer, 1857) E-F lectotype NHMUK 1975382 (H = 27.7) G syntype of Helix thamnoica var. C d'Orbigny, 1835 NHMUK 1854.12.4.110 (H = 32.2) H-J Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) bicolor (Sowerby I, 1835) H-I lectotype resp. paralectotype of Helix polymorpha d'Orbigny, 1835 NHMUK 1854.12.4.199 (H = 23.6 resp. 21.2) J possible syntype of Bulinus badius Sowerby I 1835 NHMUK 20100631 (H = 25.8). All enlarged.

Figure L 19. Labels. i Bulimulus (Drymaeus) dukinfieldi Melvill, 1900 ii Bulimus dunkeri Pfeiffer in Philippi 1846 iii Bulimulus (Peronaeus) durangoanus Martens, 1893 iv Bulimus dutaillyi Pfeiffer, 1857 v Bulimus dysoni Pfeiffer, 1846 vi Bulimus edwardsi Morelet, 1863.