Bulimulus borellii Ancey, 1897

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2011, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Royal Belgian Institute of Sciences, Brussels, with descriptions of two new species, ZooKeys 101, pp. 1-50 : 10-11

Bulimulus borellii Ancey, 1897 Figs 10 F–G, 10iv

Bulimulus borellii Ancey 1897: 13; Wood and Gallichan 2008: 30.

Type locality.

[Bolivia, Dept. Tarija] "Mission de San Francisco, sur le haut-Pilcomayo en Bolivie".

Label.

"Mission / de San Francisco / Haut-Pilcomayo, Bolivie", in Ancey’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

[Measurements of three specimens given] "a) Long 34, lat. 11 mill.-b) Long 31, lat. 9 mill.-c) Long. 32, lat. 10 1/2 mill."; largest figured specimen H 28.8, D 10.3, W 8.8.

Type material.

RBINS/MT2340, two syntypes, ex Géret ex Ancey, Borelli leg. (Dautzenberg coll.).

Remarks.

The specimens are smaller than the measurements given by Ancey, although they are from the type locality. This taxon was hitherto classified as Drymaeus . However, the sculpture of the protoconch shows very fine spiral lines and dispersed granules, more or less axially arranged. It thus belongs to Bostryx (s.l.).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bostryx borellii (Ancey, 1897) (comb. n.).