Bulimus corpulentus Gassies, 1871

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 : 8

Bulimus corpulentus Gassies, 1871 Figs 10A, 10i

Bulimus corpulentus Gassies 1871: 183; Breure and Schouten 1985: 67.

Placostylus corpulentus (Gassies); Neubert et al. 2009: 112, fig. 184.

Type locality.

"Fossile à l’île des Pins et à l’îlot Koutoumo".

Label.

"New Caledonia".

Dimensions.

"Long. 100 mill.; diam. maj. 55 mill."; specimen figured herein H 94.0, D 64.0, W 6.7.

Type material.

NHMUK 1883.11.10.1178, syntype, R.P. Lambert leg. (ex Gassies).

Remarks.

The surface of the specimen is covered by various encrustations.

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Placostylus corpulentus (Gassies, 1871).

Figures

Figure 10. Placostylus and Aspastus species. A, i Placostylus corpulentus (Gassies, 1871), syntype NHM 1883.11.10.1173 (H = 94.0). Reduced in size B, ii Aspastus sellersi (Cox, 1871), lectotype NHM 2007069 (H = 44.4) C, iii Aspastus miltocheilus (Reeve, 1848), lectotype NHM 2007072 (H = 68.3).