Otostomus scitus H. Adams, 1867

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 : 147

Otostomus scitus H. Adams, 1867 Figs 41D-F , L54iii

Otostomus scitus H. Adams 1867a: 442, pl. 38 fig. 5.

Type locality.

[Peru] "[Upper Amazons, and on the River Ucayali, Eastern Peru]".

Label.

"Upper Amazons".

Dimensions.

"Long. 28, diam. maj. 17 mill."; figured specimen herein H 27.1, D 16.8, W 6.1.

Type material.

NHMUK 1867.5.18.5, holotype (ex H. Adams).

Remarks.

Adams stated "one example only", thus there is no doubt this is the holotype. The current systematic position is according to Richardson (1995: 123).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Drymaeus) expansus (Pfeiffer, 1848).

Figures

Figure 41. Drymaeus species. A-C Drymaeus (Drymaeus) arcuatostriatus (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHMUK 1975455 (H = 27.6) D-F Drymaeus (Drymaeus) expansus (Pfeiffer, 1848), holotype of Otostomus scitus H. Adams, 1867 NHMUK 1867.5.18.5 (H = 27.1) G-I Drymaeus (Drymaeus) bartletti (H. Adams, 1867), lectotype NHMUK 1867.5.18.4 (H = 28.5). All enlarged.

Figure L 54. Labels. i Bulimus schmidti Pfeiffer, 1854 ii Bulimus scitulus Reeve, 1849 iii Otostomus scitus H. Adams, 1867 iv Bulimulus (Drymaeus) selli Preston, 1909 v Bulimus serotinus Morelet, 1860 vi Bulimus serratus Pfeiffer, 1855.