Bulimus veruculum 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 : 169-170

Bulimus veruculum Morelet, 1860 Figs 3A , L64ii

Bulimus veruculum Morelet 1860: 376; Morelet 1863: 211, pl. 11 fig. 11.

Bulimulus (Geoceras) veruculum ; Pilsbry 1896 [1895-1896]: 137, pl. 45 fig. 8.

Type locality.

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

Label.

”Pérou, Ayacucho", in Morelet’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 24; diam. 4 1/2 millim."; figured specimen herein H 24.5, D 4.2, W 19.1.

Type material.

NHMUK 1893.2.4.1141-1145, five syntypes (Morelet coll.).

Remarks.

Morelet (1860) did not state on how many specimens his description was based. In Morelet (1863) the locality is specified as "Balsa de Cocharcas", which might be Dept. Ayacucho, Cocharcas. The current systematic position follows Richardson (1995: 50).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bostryx veruculum (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 64. Labels. i Bulimus verrucosus Pfeiffer, 1855 ii Bulimus veruculum Morelet, 1860 iii Bulinus versicolor Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832 iv Bulimus vesicalis Pfeiffer, 1853 v Bulimus vespertinus Pfeiffer, 1858 vi Bulimus vincentinus Pfeiffer, 1846 vii Drymaeus volsus Fulton, 1907.