Bulimus acalles Pfeiffer, 1853

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 : 8-9

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.392.6328

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/45DDFCCF-E547-3786-1533-BC51E821C69A

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scientific name

Bulimus acalles Pfeiffer, 1853
status

 

Bulimus acalles Pfeiffer, 1853 Figs 6A View Figure 6 , L1iv View Figure L1

Bulimus acalles Pfeiffer 1853b [7 Dec.]: 258; Pfeiffer 1853d [31 Dec.]: 410; Pfeiffer 1853 [31 Dec.] in Küster and Pfeiffer 1840-1865: 84, pl. 30 figs 27-28.

Bulimulus (Lissoacme) acalles ; Pilsbry 1896 [1895-1896]: 160, pl. 50 figs 53-54.

Type locality.

"in Andibus Peruvianis".

Label.

”Peru”. M.C. label style I.

Dimensions.

"Long. 10, diam. 6 mill."; figured specimen herein H 13.2, D 7.7, W 5.3.

Type material.

NHMUK 20100651, two possible syntypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The specimens found are slightly larger than the original measurements; the largest has shell height 13.2 mm. The material-not accompanied by a taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting-is from the Cuming collection, on which Pfeiffer based the description for this taxon; he did not state on how many specimens his description was based. The specimens are treated as possible syntypes.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bostryx acalles (Pfeiffer, 1853).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Bulimulidae

Genus

Bulimus

Loc

Bulimus acalles Pfeiffer, 1853

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D. 2014
2014
Loc

Bulimus acalles

Pfeiffer 1853
1853