Bulimus luridus Pfeiffer, 1863

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 : 94

Bulimus luridus Pfeiffer, 1863 Figs 9E , L35vii

Bulimus luridus Pfeiffer 1863: 274.

Type locality.

"New Caledonia" (see remarks).

Label.

"New Caledonia", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style III.

Dimensions.

"Long. 22, diam. 11 mill."; figured specimen herein H 21.7, D 12.55, W 6.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 19991535, lectotype and one paralectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

This taxon, hitherto unfigured, has not been collected on New Caledonia (see also Crosse 1871: 183). Pilsbry (1896 [1895-1896]: 194) suggested that it might belong to his South American group of ' Bulimulus-Bostryx-Lissoacme ' species. The protoconch is smooth and fits within Bostryx sensu Breure 1979 (see also Breure 2012b). The type locality is clearly in error and the species might possibly be found in northern Peru or Ecuador. The specimen marked with ‘x’ near the basal margin of the aperture is now selected lectotype (design. n.) to fixate this taxon.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bostryx luridus (Pfeiffer, 1863).

Figures

Figure 9. Bostryx species. A-B Bostryx apodemetus (d'Orbigny, 1835), syntype NHMUK 1854.12.4.182 (H = 23.0) C Bostryx delumbis (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975124 (H = 21.2) D Bostryx ferrugineus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975380 (H = 19.0) E Bostryx luridus (Pfeiffer, 1863), lectotype NHMUK 19991535 (H = 21.7) F-H Bostryx paposensis (Pfeiffer, 1856), paralectotype NHMUK 1975311 (H = 21.2) H sculpture on dorsal side of last whorl I-K Bostryx pustulosus (Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832), probable syntype NHMUK 1975589 (H = 16.4) K sculpture on dorsal side of penultimate whorl. All enlarged.

Figure L 35. Labels. i Bulimus lobbii Reeve, 1849 ii Helix lophoica d'Orbigny, 1835 iii Bulimus longinquus Morelet, 1863 iv Otostomus loxanus Higgins, 1872 v Bulimus loxensis Pfeiffer, 1846 vi Bulimulus (Drymaeus) lucidus Da Costa, 1898 vii Bulimus luridus Pfeiffer, 1863 viii Bulimus lucidus Reeve, 1848.