Bulimus floridanus Pfeiffer, 1857

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 : 60-61

Bulimus floridanus Pfeiffer, 1857 Figs 19H , L24i

Bulimus floridanus Pfeiffer 1857c: 330; Breure 1979: 119 (lectotype designation).

Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) dominicus (Reeve)[sic]; Breure and Eskens 1981: 55.

Type locality.

[U.S.A.] ”Florida”.

Label.

”Florida”, taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style III.

Dimensions.

"Long. 15 2/3-17, diam. 7 1/2 mill."; figured specimen herein H 16.7, D 8.0, W 6.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975199, lectotype; 1975200, one paralectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

This taxon was considered by Richardson (1995: 190) as a junior subjective synonym of Drymaeus umbraticus (Reeve, 1850), of which the type material also is present in the NHMUK collection (see page 201); this classification is here followed.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) umbraticus (Reeve, 1850).

Figures

Figure 19. Drymaeus species. A-B Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) aestivus (Pfeiffer, 1857), syntype NHMUK 1975462 (H = 16.9) C Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) amandus (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHMUK 1975457 (H = 29.0) D Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) castus (Pfeiffer, 1847), lectotype NHMUK 1975197 (H = 19.0) E-F Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) championi (Martens, 1893), lectotype NHMUK 1901.6.22.451 (H = 27.0) G-H Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) umbraticus (Reeve, 1850) G lectotype NHMUK 1975184 (H = 15.3) H lectotype of Bulimus floridanus Pfeiffer, 1857 NHMUK 1975199 (H = 16.7) I-J Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) columbiensis (Pfeiffer, 1856), lectotype NHMUK 1975521 (H = 28.0) K-L Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) columbianus (Lea, 1838), lectotype of Bulimus hachensis Reeve, 1850 NHMUK 1975392 (H = 26.4). All enlarged.

Figure L 24. Labels. i Bulimus floridanus Pfeiffer, 1857 ii Bulimus fontainii d'Orbigny, 1838 iii Bulimus fourmiersi d'Orbigny, 1837 iv Helix fusoides d'Orbigny, 1835 v Bulimus fucatus Reeve, 1849 vi Bulimus (Liostracus) fuscobasis E. A. Smith, 1877 vii Bulimus gabbi Angas, 1879 viii Bulimus galapaganus Pfeiffer, 1855.