Macrodontes simplex Thiele, 1906

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 44

Macrodontes simplex Thiele, 1906 Figs 31G-I, 31iii

Macrodontes simplex Thiele 1906: 70, fig. 1-1a; Zilch 1960: 508, fig. 1781; Schileyko 1999: 334, fig. 412.

Type locality.

[Brazil] "Serra dos Tapes (Rio grande do Sul)".

Label.

"Serra dos Tapes / Rio gr. do Sul", in Thiele’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

“Höhe 36 mm. Dicke 10 mm"; figured specimen herein H 34.9, D 10.6, W 6.6.

Type material.

ZMB 55781, holotype; von Königswald leg. ZMB 55782, paratype; Schlüter leg.

Remarks.

Thiele described this taxon from two specimens in the ZMB collection. The paratype specimen (ZMB 55782) bears the label "Rio Grande do Sul". The current systematic position is modified after Simone (2006).

Current systematic position.

Odontostomidae , Odontostomus simplex (Thiele, 1906).

Figures

Figure 31. A-C, i Moricandia willi (Dohrn, 1883), syntype ZMB 36423 (H = 27.9) D-F, ii Odontostomus koenigswaldi (Thiele, 1906), holotype ZMB 55780 (H = 30.5) G-I, iii Odontostomus simplex (Thiele, 1906), holotype ZMB 55781 (H = 34.9). All enlarged.