Bulimus confusus Reeve, 1848

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 : 40-41

Bulimus confusus Reeve, 1848 Figs 66I-K , L14ii

Bulimus confusus Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 48 fig. 316; Pfeiffer 1853d: 426; Breure 1979: 85.

Bulimulus confusus ; Pilsbry 1898 [1897-1898]: 282, pl. 45 fig. 32.

Scutalus (Vermiculatus) confusus ; Breure 1978: 173 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

Not given.

Label.

”Peru”, corrected to ”?Peru” on a label in E.A. Smith’s handwriting. M.C. label style III, V.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 29.0, D 13.1, W 6.0.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975194, lectotype; 1975195, two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The protoconch sculpture is typically for Kuschelenia Hylton Scott, 1952. The placement of this taxon within Drymaeus by Richardson (1995) is thus erroneous. Breure (1978) mentioned "New Grenada" as locality on the label; however, no mentioning of Peru which may be the original locality, if Crawford’s interpretation ( Crawford 1939: 328) was correct to synonymize this taxon with Kuschelenia culminea ( d’Orbigny, 1835).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) culminea ( d’Orbigny, 1835) (comb. n.).

Figures

Figure 66. A-D Scutalus species. A-B Scutalus proteus Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832, lectotype NHMUK 20100638 (H = 44.1) C-E Scutalus versicolor versicolor (Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832) C-D possible syntype NHMUK 20100637 (H = 29.6) E lectotype of Bulimus coagulatus Reeve 1849 NHMUK 1975351 (H = 15.6) F-P Kuschelenia species. F-N Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) culminea culminea (d'Orbigny, 1835) F-H paralectotype NHMUK 1854.12.4.198 (H = 31.2) I-K lectotype of Bulimus confusus Reeve, 1848 NHMUK 1975194 (H = 29.0) L-N lectotype of Bulimus jussieui Pfeiffer, 1846 NHMUK 1975170 (H = 31.6) O-P Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) bicolor (Sowerby I, 1835), lectotype NHMUK 1975151 (H = 23.6). All enlarged.

Figure L 14. Labels. i Bulimus confluens Pfeiffer, 1855 ii Bulimus confusus Reeve, 1848 iii Drymaeus conicus da Costa, 1907 iv Bulimus convexus Pfeiffer, 1855 v Helix cora d'Orbigny, 1835 vi Helix crepundia d'Orbigny, 1835.