Placostylus (Eumecostylus) foxi Clench, 1950

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2012, Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 182, pp. 1-70 : 11

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.182.2720

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Placostylus (Eumecostylus) foxi Clench, 1950
status

 

Placostylus (Eumecostylus) foxi Clench, 1950 Figs 11B, 11ii View Figure 11

Placostylus (Eumecostylus) foxi Clench 1950: 3, figs 1-2; Breure and Schouten 1985: 68.

Eumecostylus foxi Clench; Delsaerdt 2010: 34, pl. 3 figs 9-15.

Type locality.

"Heuru western end of San Cristobal Island, Solomon Islands".

Label.

"Brit. Solomon Isl. / Heuru, western Cristobal Isl.".

Dimensions.

"Length 86.8, Gt. width 32 [mm]"; specimen figured herein H 82.3, D 31.5, W 5.9.

Type material.

NHMUK 1953.2.4.1, paratype (ex Schlesch).

Remarks.

Delsaerdt (2010) corrected the coordinates of the type locality as given by Clench. The specimen in NHMUK was obtained "Through Dr Quick" from the Schlesch collection and has a label “paratype” glued within the aperture. It may be noted that Clench (1950) stated "Paratypes (...) in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the B.P. Bishop Museum and the collections of A.G. Stevenson, Reverend Fox and Walter J. Eyerdam". It is not clear how the specimen reached the Schlesch collection or if it was genuinely part of the original series.

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Eumecostylus foxi (Clench, 1950).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Bothriembryontidae

Genus

Placostylus

Loc

Placostylus (Eumecostylus) foxi Clench, 1950

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D. 2012
2012
Loc

Placostylus (Eumecostylus) foxi

Clench 1950
1950