Ampullaria puntaplaya, Cousin, 1887

Cowie, Robert H. & Héros, Virginie, 2012, Annotated catalogue of the types of Ampullariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with lectotype designations, Zoosystema 34 (4), pp. 793-824 : 816

puntaplaya Cousin, 1887 , Ampullaria

( Fig. 6C )

Ampullaria puntaplaya Cousin, 1887: 278 , pl. 4, fig. 2.

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Pomacea (Pomacea) . Valid species.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Lectotype (here designated) MNHN 4622 ; paralectotypes MNHN 4621 (3 spms).

TYPE LOCALITY. — “Punta-Playa” [“Puntaplaya, Casa Hurtado” ( MNHN 4621)] [ Equador].

REMARKS

Cousin’s description was explicitly based on more than one specimen. The species was not listed by Fischer-Piette (1950).One specimen ( MNHN 4622 ) has a label inside it that says “type” ; it corresponds closely to Cousin’s illustration, as well as to the dimensions given in the original description; we here designate this specimen as the lectotype to stabilise the name. The other lot ( MNHN 4621 ) contains three specimens, one of which also closely matches Cousin’s illustration and the dimensions in the original description ; we consider these to be paralectotypes.

Figures

FIG. 6. — A, Ampullaria physis Hupé,1857,lectotype MNHN 23084, 41.4 mm; B, Ampullaria prunella Hupé,1857,syntype MNHN 4620, 25.7 mm; C, Ampullaria puntaplaya Cousin, 1887, lectotype MNHN 4622, 35.6 mm; D, Ampullaria pygmaea Récluz, 1851, syntype MNHN 4623, 7.0 mm; E, Meladomus pyramidalis Bourguignat,1879,syntype MNHN 4624, 42.5 mm; F, Ampullaria reyrei Cousin,1887, possible syntype MNHN 23087, 60.3 mm; G, Ampullaria scalaris d’Orbigny, 1835, lectotype MNHN 23088, 48.9 mm; H, Ampullaria schrammi Crosse, 1876, lectotype MNHN 4630, 41.7 mm.