Bulimus yungasensis d'Orbigny , 1837

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 : 176

Bulimus yungasensis d'Orbigny, 1837 Figs 35D-F , L65iv

Bulimus yungasensis d’Orbigny 1837 [1834-1847]: 316, pl. 40 fig. 8 [18 Sept. 1837; text 6 May 1838]; Gray 1854: 21.

Drymaeus yungasensis ; Pilsbry 1898 [1897-1898]: 196, pl. 36 figs 52-53; Breure 1975b: 1153, pl. 2 fig. 6 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

[Bolovia] "seulement dans les bois qui bordent le Rio de Meguilla, près de son confluent avec le Rio de la Paz".

Label.

"megu[illa], Yungas Bolivia", in d’Orbigny’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 35 millim.; lat. 13 millim."; figured specimen herein H 32.6, D 13.54, W 6.4.

Type material.

NHMUK 1854.12.4.134, lectotype and four paralectotypes ( d’Orbigny coll.).

Remarks.

d’Orbigny did not state on how many specimens his description was based. One of the specimens corresponds to his figure and is here designated lectotype ( design.n.) to define the taxon.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Drymaeus) yungasensis ( d’Orbigny, 1837).

Figures

Figure 35. Drymaeus species. A-C Drymaeus (Drymaeus) volsus Fulton, 1907, lectotype NHMUK 1907.5.3.162 (H = 30.3) D-F Drymaeus (Drymaeus) yungasensis (d'Orbigny, 1837), lectotype NHMUK 1854.12.4.134 (H = 32.6) G-I Drymaeus (Drymaeus) lucidus (da Costa, 1898), lectotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.44 (H = 18.6) J-L Drymaeus (Drymaeus) sykesi da Costa, 1906, holotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.4 (H = 51.7). All enlarged.

Figure L 65. Labels. i Bulimus virginalis Pfeiffer, 1856 ii Bulimus virgultorum Morelet, 1863 iii Drymaeus wintlei Finch, 1929 iv Bulimulus (Naesiotus) wolfi Reibisch, 1892 v Bulimus voithianus Pfeiffer, 1847.