Limnaeus gutta, Villa & Villa, 1871

Vinarski, Maxim V., 2016, Annotated type catalogue of lymnaeid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (1), pp. 131-152 : 135

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

gutta Villa & Villa, 1871 Fig. 22

Limnaea gutta Villa and Villa 1871: 92 (nomen nudum).

Limnaea gutta Kilias, 1967: 339.

Type material.

There is a single specimen (syntype) of Limnaea gutta in ZMB (accession number 17739). Its shell height is equal to 6.6 mm.

Type locality.

Italy, Lombardy (from the Villa and Villa’s work title).

Current taxonomic allocation.

The syntype of Limnaea gutta may be identified as a juvenile Radix (Peregriana) sp. Possibly, this shell belongs to Radix balthica or Radix ampla (Hartmann, 1821).

Remark.

Villa and Villa (1871) published this species name without diagnosis or other information that would make it available under article 12 of the International Codex of Zoological Nomenclature.