Bulimus bairdii Reeve, 1848

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 : 4-5

Bulimus bairdii Reeve, 1848 Figs 7A, 7i

Bulimus bairdii Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 43 fig. 272; Breure and Schouten 1985: 67 (lectotype designation); Neubert et al. 2009: 51, 53, fig. 8.

Type locality.

“-?”.

Label.

No locality given. "Type specimen" added in a later handwriting (E.A. Smith?)

Dimensions.

Not given. Specimen figured herein H 78.1, D 36.2, W 7.3.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975223, lectotype.

Remarks.

Reeve indicated that his specimen was in "Mus. Brit.". His description leaves room for the possibility that Reeve passed additional specimens to other collectors/institutions; therefore, we concur with Breure and Schouten (1985) to designate this specimen as lectotype. Neubert et al. (2009), who consider this specimen a syntype, treat this taxon as a synonym of Placostylus fibratus fibratus (Martyn, 1784).

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Placostylus fibratus fibratus (Martyn, 1784).

Figures

Figure 7. Placostylus fibratus fibratus (Martyn, 1784). A, i Bulimus bairdii Reeve, 1848, lectotype NHM 1975223 (H = 78.1) B, ii Bulimus falcicula Gassies, 1871, syntype NHM 1883.11.10. (H = 74.5) C, iii Bulimus superfasciatus Gassies, 1871, syntype NHM 1883.11.10.1167 (H = 77.1) D, iv Bulimus ouensis Gassies, 1870, holotype NHM 1883.11.10.1176 (H = 83.7) E, v Bulimus asopeus Gassies, 1871, holotype NHM 1883.11.10.1173 (H = 49.7) F, vi Bulimus bulbulus Gassies, 1871, syntype NHM 1883.11.10.223 (H = 4.13). All reduced in size.