Bulimus nitelinus Reeve, 1849

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 : 108

Bulimus nitelinus Reeve, 1849 Figs 22F , L41ii

Bulimus nitelinus Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 59 fig. 398.

Type locality.

”Mexico”.

Label.

”Mexico”. M.C. label style I.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 29.4, D 14.0, W 6.3.

Type material.

NHMUK 20100570, lectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Reeve did not state on how many specimens his description was based. The single specimen, with the colours faded on the ventral side, corresponds to his figure and is here selected lectotype (design.n.). The current systematic position is following Richardson (1995: 177).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) serperastrus (Say, 1830).

Figures

Figure 22. Drymaeus species. A Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) granadensis (Pfeiffer, 1848), lectotype of Bulimus incarnatus Pfeiffer, 1855 NHMUK 1975566 (H = 30.7) B Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) pertristis Pilsbry, 1898, syntype of Bulimus tristis Pfeiffer, 1855 NHMUK 1975299 (H = 29.3) C Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) depictus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975529 (H = 27.9) D Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) trimarianus (Martens, 1893), lectotype NHMUK 1901.6.22.950 (H = 31.5) E Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) electrum (Reeve, 1848), lectotype NHMUK 1975510 (H = 29.6) F Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) serperastrus (Say, 1830), lectotype of Bulimus nitelinus Reeve, 1849 NHMUK 20100570 (H = 29.4) G Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) dutaillyi (Pfeiffer, 1857), lectotype NHMUK 1975516 (H = 30.8) H Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) moricandi (Pfeiffer, 1847), lectotype NHMUK 1975212 (H = 23.6) I Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) loxensis (Pfeiffer, 1846), lectotype NHMUK 1975553 (H = 34.7) J Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) meridanus (Pfeiffer, 1846), syntype NHMUK 1975523 (H = 35.9). All enlarged.

Figure L 41. Labels. i Bulimus nigropileatus Reeve, 1849 ii Bulimus nitelinus Reeve, 1849 iii Bulinus nitidus Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832 iv Helix nivalis d'Orbigny, 1835 v Drymaeus notabilis da Costa, 1906 vi Drymaeus notatus da Costa, 1906 vii Bulimus nubeculatus Pfeiffer, 1853.