Bulimus eddystonensis Pfeiffer, 1855

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 : 10

Bulimus eddystonensis Pfeiffer, 1855 Figs 9D, 9iv

Bulimus eddystonensis Pfeiffer 1855a: 8.

Placostylus (Placostylus) eddystonensis (Pfeiffer); Breure and Schouten 1985: 59 (lectotype designation); Neubert et al. 2009: 94, fig. 149.

Type locality.

"Eddystone Island, Australian Seas" [Solomon Islands; see remarks].

Label.

"Eddystone Isld / Australian sea", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style IV.

Dimensions.

"Long. 74, diam. 34 mill."; lectotype H 73.3, D 36.3, W 6.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975230, lectotype and two paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks. The type locality was in error and was subsequently corrected to New Caledonia, Hienghène ( Gassies 1863: 260); see Neubert et al. 2009: fig. 156 for distributional data.

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Placostylus eddystonensis (Pfeiffer, 1855).

Figures

Figure 9. Placostylus species. A, i Placostylus fibratus goroensis (Souverbie in Souverbie and Montrouzier, 1870), syntype of Bulimus fibratus grammica Crosse, 1870 NHM 1929.9.14.15 (H = 111.3) B, ii Placostylus fibratus souvillei (Morelet, 1857), lectotype NHM 1893.2.4.1529 (H = 116.5) C, iii Placostylus porphyrostomus porphyrostomus (Pfeiffer, 1851), holotype of Bulimus singularis Morelet, 1857 NHM 1893.2.4.1530 (H = 70.0) D, iv Placostylus eddystonensis eddystonensis (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHM 1975230 (H = 73.3) E, v Placostylus eddystonensis savesi (Crosse, 1886), holotype NHM 1929.9.14.7 (H = 57.5) F, vi Placostylus caledonicus (Petit de la Saussaye, 1845), possible syntype of Bulimus edwardsianus Gassies, 1863 NHM 1883.11.10.1172 (H = 72.0). All reduced in size.