Limnaeus prunum, Troschel, 1837

Vinarski, Maxim V., 2016, Annotated type catalogue of lymnaeid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (1), pp. 131-152 : 138

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

prunum Troschel, 1837 Fig. 38

Limnaeus prunum Troschel 1837: 170.

Limnaea acuminata var. prunum Preston 1915: 108.

Limnaeus prunum Kilias 1961: 165.

Type material.

12 syntypes of Limnaeus prunum in ZMB are kept in two samples: No. 101523 (11 syntypes) and 72998 (a single syntype), leg. Lamare Piquot. The shell height of the largest syntype is 27.4 mm.

Type locality.

India, the Ganges River ( Troschel 1837). The label of the syntypes is "Ganges, Bengalien".

Current taxonomic allocation.

Cerasina luteola (Lamarck, 1822).