Ampullaria simplicula, Mabille, 1889

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 : 818

simplicula Mabille, 1889 , Ampullaria

( Fig. 7A )

Ampullaria simplicula Mabille, 1889: 16 .

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Pila . Valid species.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype (here designated) MNHN 4520 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — “ Tonkin ” [in publication title] [ Vietnam].

REMARKS

The shell matches the characters given in the description, but does not exactly match the dimensions. The “Diam. maj.” is 28 mm, as in the description, but the height is 29.2 mm, not 25 mm as given in the description. However, this inconsistency may simply be unintentional error, and since a label in Mabille’s handwriting says “type”, we here designate this specimen as the lectotype to stabilise the name.

Figures

FIG. 7. — A, Ampullaria simplicula Mabille,1889,lectotype MNHN 4520, 29.1 mm;B, Lanistes ellipticus var.β trapeziformis Furtado,1886, lectotype MNHN 23089, 52.8 mm;C, Ampullaria violacea Valenciennes,1833,holotype MNHN 4530, 43.1 mm;D, Ampullaria virescens Deshayes in Bory de Saint-Vincent,1824,holotype MNHN 24513,54.7 mm (also lectotype of Ampullaria polita Deshayes,1830);E, Ampullaria wellesleyensis Morgan,1885,lectotype MNHN 24514, 34.1 mm; F, Lanistes zambesianus Furtado,1886,holotype MNHN 4525, 55.6 mm; G, Ampullaria zonata d’Orbigny, 1835, syntype MNHN 4523, 38.2 mm (also lectotype of Ampullaria spixii d’Orbigny, 1838).