Bulimus yungasensis d'Orbigny , 1837

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 : 176

Bulimus yungasensis d'Orbigny, 1837 Figs 35D-F , L65iv

Bulimus yungasensis d’Orbigny 1837 [1834-1847]: 316, pl. 40 fig. 8 [18 Sept. 1837; text 6 May 1838]; Gray 1854: 21.

Drymaeus yungasensis ; Pilsbry 1898 [1897-1898]: 196, pl. 36 figs 52-53; Breure 1975b: 1153, pl. 2 fig. 6 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

[Bolovia] "seulement dans les bois qui bordent le Rio de Meguilla, près de son confluent avec le Rio de la Paz".

Label.

"megu[illa], Yungas Bolivia", in d’Orbigny’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 35 millim.; lat. 13 millim."; figured specimen herein H 32.6, D 13.54, W 6.4.

Type material.

NHMUK 1854.12.4.134, lectotype and four paralectotypes ( d’Orbigny coll.).

Remarks.

d’Orbigny did not state on how many specimens his description was based. One of the specimens corresponds to his figure and is here designated lectotype (design.n.) to define the taxon.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Drymaeus) yungasensis ( d’Orbigny, 1837).

Figures

Figure 35. Drymaeus species. A-C Drymaeus (Drymaeus) volsus Fulton, 1907, lectotype NHMUK 1907.5.3.162 (H = 30.3) D-F Drymaeus (Drymaeus) yungasensis (d'Orbigny, 1837), lectotype NHMUK 1854.12.4.134 (H = 32.6) G-I Drymaeus (Drymaeus) lucidus (da Costa, 1898), lectotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.44 (H = 18.6) J-L Drymaeus (Drymaeus) sykesi da Costa, 1906, holotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.4 (H = 51.7). All enlarged.

Figure L 65. Labels. i Bulimus virginalis Pfeiffer, 1856 ii Bulimus virgultorum Morelet, 1863 iii Drymaeus wintlei Finch, 1929 iv Bulimulus (Naesiotus) wolfi Reibisch, 1892 v Bulimus voithianus Pfeiffer, 1847.