Limnaeus margaritacea, Westerlund, 1865

Vinarski, Maxim V., 2016, Annotated type catalogue of lymnaeid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (1), pp. 131-152 : 136

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

margaritacea Westerlund, 1865 Fig. 27

Limnaea limosa var. ovata f. margaritacea Westerlund 1865: 91.

Limnaea lagotis var. margaritacea Westerlund 1873: 334.

Limnaea lagotis var. margaritacea Westerlund 1885: 34.

Limnaea lagotis var. margaritacea Kilias 1961: 164.

Type material.

Two syntypes are kept in ZMB under accession number 49531. The largest of them is 18.5 height. The other syntypes are in ZIN (No. 1 in systematic catalogue) and NMG (accession number 3690).

Type locality.

Ronneby, Sweden.

Current taxonomic allocation.

Most probably, Radix (Radix) auricularia .