Bulimus atacamensis Pfeiffer, 1856

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 : 18-19

Bulimus atacamensis Pfeiffer, 1856 Figs 2A-B , L6ii

Bulimus atacamensis Pfeiffer 1856c: 207; Pfeiffer 1859b: 486; Breure 1979: 51.

Bostryx atacamensis ; Breure 1978: 53 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

"Paposo in deserto Atacamensi reipublicae Chilensis. (R.A. Philippi)".

Label.

"Desert of Atacama, / Chile // Philippi has sent it", ”Bolivia” [in a later handwriting]; taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 19, lat. 5 1/2 mill."; figured specimen herein H 19.0, D 5.9, W 10.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975312, lectotype; NHMUK 1975128, two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The current systematic position follows Richardson (1995: 17).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bostryx atacamensis (Pfeiffer, 1856).

Figures

Figure 2. Bostryx species. A-B Bostryx atacamensis (Pfeiffer, 1856), lectotype NHMUK 1975312 (H = 19.0) C-D Bostryx lactifluus (Pfeiffer, 1857), syntype NHMUK 20100642 (H = 16.2) E-F Bostryx lichnorum (d'Orbigny, 1835), syntype NHMUK 1854.12.4.96 (H = 15.8) G-H Bostryx nanus (Reeve, 1849), syntype NHMUK 1975463 (H = 15.4) I-J Bostryx scabiosus (Sowerby I, 1833), syntype NHMUK 20110176 (H = 15.9) K-L Bostryx pupiformis (Broderip, 1832), syntype NHMUK 20100613 (H = 23.5) M-N Bostryx terebralis (Pfeiffer, 1842), syntype NHMUK 20110082 (H = 19.8) O-P Bostryx holostoma (Pfeiffer, 1846), lectotype NHMUK 1975345 (H = 7.84). All enlarged.

Figure L 6. Labels. i Bulimus aquilus Reeve, 1848 ii Bulimus atacamensis Pfeiffer, 1856 iii Bulimus arcuatostriatus Pfeiffer, 1855 iv-v Bulimulus atahualpa Dohrn, 1863 vi Bulimus attenuatus Pfeiffer, 1853 vii Bulimus aurifluus Pfeiffer 1857.