Ampullaria libyca, Morelet, 1849

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

libyca Morelet, 1849 , Ampullaria

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Ampullaria libyca Morelet, 1849: 354 .

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Lanistes . Valid species.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Syntypes MNHN 4610 (3 spms), 4611 (2 spms).

TYPE LOCALITY. — “ Gabon ” [“Marigots du Gabon ” ( MNHN 4610)].

REMARKS

MNHN 4611 has a label that indicates that the shells were received as an exchange from Morelet in 1851. Date of publication was 1849, according to Sherborn (1927).

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.