Bulimus humboldtii Reeve, 1849

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 : 72

Bulimus humboldtii Reeve, 1849 Figs 37D-E , L27iii

Bulimus humboldtii Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 58 fig. 391; Breure 1979: 110.

Type locality.

”Mexico”.

Label.

”Mexico”. M.C. label style IV, V.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 27.6, D 14.5, W 6.6.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975528, lectotype and one paralectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The specimen corresponding to Reeve’s figure is selected lectotype ( design. n.) to define this taxon, for which Reeve did not state on how many specimens his description was based. This taxon is considered a junior subjective synonym of Bulimus mexicanus Lamarck, 1822 by Richardson (1995: 150), which is a Peruvian species.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Drymaeus) mexicanus (Lamarck, 1822).

Figures

Figure 37. Drymaeus species. A-C Drymaeus (Drymaeus) auris (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1975499 (H = 38.8) D-E Drymaeus (Drymaeus) mexicanus (Lamarck, 1822), lectotype of Bulimus humboldtii Reeve, 1849 NHMUK 1975528 (H = 27.6) F-H Drymaeus (Drymaeus) coarctatus (Pfeiffer, 1845), lectotype 1975560 (H = 34.6) I-K Drymaeus (Drymaeus) dombeyanus (Pfeiffer, 1846), syntype NHMUK 1844.10.2.32 (H = 56.8) L-N rymaeus (Drymaeus) angustus da Costa, 1906, holotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.14 (H = 31.5). All enlarged.

Figure L 27. Labels. i Bulimus hondurasanus Pfeiffer, 1846 ii Bulimus huascensis Reeve, 1848 iii Bulimus humboldtii Reeve, 1849 iv Helix hygrohylaea d'Orbigny, 1835 v Otostomus emeus hypozonus Martens, 1893 vi Bulimus ignavus Reeve, 1849.