Bulimus spiculatus Morelet, 1860

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 : 152

Bulimus spiculatus Morelet, 1860 Figs 3B-C , L56iii

Bulimus spiculatus Morelet 1860: 375; Morelet 1863: 203, pl. 11 fig. 3; Breure 1979: 58.

Bulimulus (Peronaeus) spiculatus ; Pilsbry 1896 [1895-1896]: 144, pl. 45 fig. 29.

Bostryx spiculatus spiculatus ; Breure 1978: 122 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

[Peru] ”[intimâ Peruviii regionae]"; see remarks.

Label.

”Pérou Ollantaïtambo”, in Morelet’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Longit. 20; diam. 5 mill."; figured specimen herein H 23.3, D 5.07, W 11+.

Type material.

NHMUK 1893.2.4.1156, lectotype; 1893.2.4.1157-1160, four paralectotypes (Morelet coll.).

Remarks.

Morelet (1860) did not state on how many specimens his description was based. In Morelet (1863) the locality is specified as "la vallée d’Ollantaïtambo”. The top of the lectotype is damaged.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bostryx spiculatus spiculatus (Morelet, 1860).

Figures

Figure 3. Bostryx species. A Bostryx veruculum (Morelet, 1860), syntype NHMUK 1893.2.4.1141 (H = 24.5) B-C Bostryx spiculatus spiculatus (Morelet, 1860), lectotype NHMUK 1893.2.4.1156 (H = 23.3) D Bostryx spiculatus paucicostatus Breure, 1978, paratype NHMUK 1975276 (H = 16.5) E Bostryx emaciatus (Morelet, 1863), syntype NHMUK 1893.2.4.248 (H = 21.7) F-G Bostryx ceratacme (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHMUK 1975347 (H = 18.0) H Bostryx haasi minor Weyrauch, 1960, paratype NHMUK 1975353 (H = 14.0) I Bostryx zilchi glomeratus Weyrauch, 1960, paratype NHMUK 1975154 (H = 18.7). All enlarged.

Figure L 56. Labels. i Drymaeus spadiceus da Costa, 1906 ii Bulimus spectatus Reeve, 1849 iii Bulimus spiculatus Morelet, 1860 iv Helix sporadica d'Orbigny, 1835 v Bulimus stenacme Pfeiffer, 1857.