Bulimus puellaris Reeve, 1850

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 : 132-133

Bulimus puellaris Reeve, 1850 Figs 20H , L49iii

Bulimus puellaris Reeve 1850 [1848-1850]: pl. 86 fig. 637; Breure 1979: 123 (lectotype designation).

Bulimulus puellaris ; Pilsbry 1897 [1897-1898]: 66, pl. 11 fig. 8.

Bulimulus tenuissimus ( d’Orbigny, 1835); Simone 2006: 120, fig. 370B.

Type locality.

”Brazil”.

Label.

”Brazil”. M.C. label style I.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 22.4, D 10.68, W 6.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975400, lectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Richardson (1995: 85) and Simone (2006) mistakenly considered this taxon as synonym of Helix tenuissima Férussac, 1832; the name should not be attributed to d’Orbigny, 1835, as the figure of Férussac (in Férussac and Deshayes 1819-1850: pl. 142B fig. 8) may be considered as indication and is thus available. The protoconch sculpture of Bulimus puellaris Reeve, 1850 shows this taxon to belong in the genus Drymaeus Albers, 1850. This taxon is tentatively kept as a separate species until further research has established its position.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) puellaris (Reeve, 1850).

Figures

Figure 20. Drymaeus species. A Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) lirinus (Morelet, 1851), holotype NHMUK 1893.2.4.1954 (H = 30.2) B Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) stramineus (Guilding, 1828), syntype of Bulimus lucidus Reeve, 1848 NHMUK 1975524 (H = 28.9) C Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) rawsoni (Guppy, 1871), lectotype of Bulimulus (Drymaeus) rawsonis H. Adams, 1873 NHMUK 1878.1.28.209 (H = 23.7) D-E Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) sulphureus (Pfeiffer, 1857) D lectotype NHMUK 20100585 (H = 28.7) E lectotype of Bulimus citronellus Angas, 1879 NHMUK 1879.7.22.19 (H = 25.0) F-G Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) inusitatus (Fulton, 1900), lectotype NHMUK 1901.4.25.28 (H = 28.3) H Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) puellaris (Reeve, 1850), lectotype NHMUK 1975400 (H = 22.4) I Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) broadwayi (E. A. Smith, 1896), holotype NHMUK 1895.11.28.10 (H = 11.9) J Drymaeus sp., syntype of Bulimus pallens Reeve, 1849 [nomen inquirendum] NHMUK 20120056 (H = 17.9). All enlarged.

Figure L 49. Labels. i Bulinus proteus Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832 ii Drymaeus pseudofusoides da Costa, 1906 iii Bulimus puellaris Reeve, 1850 iv Bulimus ptychostylus Pfeiffer, 1858 v Otostomus pulcherrimus H. Adams, 1867.