Bulimus porphyrius Pfeiffer, 1847

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 : 42-43

Bulimus porphyrius Pfeiffer, 1847 Figs 11i-iv, L16iii

Bulimus porphyrius Pfeiffer 1847: 114; Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 15 fig. 89; Pfeiffer 1848b: 199; Breure 1979: 41.

Thaumastus (Scholvienia) porphyrius ; Breure 1978: 46 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

"Bolivia (T. Bridges)".

Label.

“Bolivia”, "andes of Caxamarca / Peru", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style IV, V.

Dimensions.

"Long. 51, diam. 20 mill.". Figured specimen H 51.5, D 22.0, W 6.6.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975277, lectotype; 1975278, two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Pfeiffer did not state on how many specimens his description was based; it was, however, one of the taxa from the Cuming collection. Breure (1978) has discussed the localities and suggested that both labels are probably erroneous. This taxon has hitherto been classified with Thaumastus (Scholvienia) Strebel, 1910. Given the results of Breure and Romero (2012), who found that subgenera of Thaumastus belong to different families, the familiar association of this taxon is tentatively made to the Orthalicidae , and Scholvienia is provisionally given generic status. Further anatomical and molecular studies should shed more light on its systematic position.

Current systematic position.

? Orthalicidae , Scholvienia porphyria (Pfeiffer, 1847) (comb. n.).