Bulimus primula 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 : 129

Bulimus primula Reeve, 1848 Figs 18H-I , L48v

Bulimus primula Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 57 fig. 385; Pilsbry 1898 [1897-1898]: 247, pl. 43 fig. 70; Breure 1979: 123.

Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) primulus ; Breure and Eskens 1981: 81 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

”Venezuela”.

Label.

”Venezuela”. M.C. label style I.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 25.0, D 11.61, W 5.9.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975478, lectotype; 1975479, one paralectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Reeve did not state on how many specimens his description was based. Richardson (1995: 207) treated this taxon as a junior subjective synonym of Bulimus studeri Pfeiffer, 1847; we concur with this opinion, but contrary to this author consider this species to belong to Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) Albers, 1850.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) studeri (Pfeiffer, 1847).

Figures

Figure 18. Drymaeus species. A-B Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) interruptus (Preston, 1909), lectotype NHMUK 1914.4.3.38 (H = 24.5) C-D Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) granadensis (Pfeiffer, 1848), lectotype of Bulimus lividus (Reeve, 1850), lectotype NHMUK 1975208 (H = 24.5) E Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) laetus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975534 (H = 26.6) F-G Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) jonasi (Pfeiffer in Philippi 1846), syntype NHMUK 1975557 (H = 26.6) H-I Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) studeri (Pfeiffer, 1847), lectotype of Bulimus primula (Reeve, 1848) NHMUK 1975478 (H = 25.0) J Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) prestoni da Costa, 1906, lectotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.12 (H = 21.3) K-L Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) muliebris (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1879.2.26.251 (H = 29.9) M-N Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) roseatus (Reeve, 1848), lectotype NHMUK 1975309 (H = 35.6) O-P Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) studeri (Pfeiffer, 1847), lectotype NHMUK 1975480 (H = 25.6) Q Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) translucens panamensis (Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832), possible syntype NHMUK 20100614 (H = 18.2) R Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) translucens translucens (Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832), lectotype NHMUK 20100634 (H = 21.2). All enlarged.

Figure L 48. Labels. i Helix polymorpha d'Orbigny, 1835 ii Drymaeus ponsonbyi da Costa, 1907 iii Bulimus praetextus Reeve, 1849 iv Drymaeus prestoni da Costa, 1906 v Bulimus primula Reeve, 1848 vi Bulinus pruinosus Sowerby I, 1833 vii Bulimus protractus Pfeiffer, 1855.