Lanistes magnus, Furtado, 1886

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 : 807-808

magnus Furtado, 1886 , Lanistes

( Fig. 4F )

Lanistes magnus Furtado, 1886: 147 , pl. 6, fig. 3.

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Lanistes . Valid species.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype MNHN 4607 , by monotypy ( ICZN 1999 b: art. 73.1.2).

TYPE LOCALITY. — “Rivière Luapula” [ Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia].

REMARKS

Furtado stated that the description was based on only one specimen. The specimen corresponds very closely with the illustration and one of the labels says that it was part of the type collection of the Journal de Conchyliologie. We consider it to be the holotype, as did Fischer-Piette (1950: 155).

Figures

FIG. 4. — A, Ampullaria lemniscata Crosse & Fischer in Fischer & Crosse, 1888, holotype MNHN 4615, 41.1 mm; B, Ampullaria letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1879, lectotype MNHN 4614, 39.5 mm; C, Ampullaria libyca Morelet, 1849, syntype MNHN 4610, 31.9 mm; D, Helix lineata Spix in Wagner, 1827, syntype MNHN 4613, 37.0 mm; E, Lanistes ellipticus var. γ luapulensis Furtado, 1886, holotype MNHN 4714, 60.0 mm; F. Lanistes magnus Furtado, 1886, holotype MNHN 4607, 105.3 mm; G, Ampullaria martinezi Hidalgo, 1866, lectotype MNHN 4608, 56.4 mm.