Bulimus scalaricosta Morelet, 1860

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 : 145

Bulimus scalaricosta Morelet, 1860 Figs 1E , L53iv

Bulimus scalaricosta Morelet 1860: 375; Morelet 1863: 205, pl. 11 fig. 8; Breure 1979: 58.

Bostryx tubulatus scalaricostus ; Breure 1978: 132 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

[Peru] ”[intimâ Peruviii regionae]"; see remarks.

Label.

"Huerta de Yucay", in Morelet’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Longit 15; diam. 5 mill."; figured specimen herein H 15.5, D 5.7, W 7.5.

Type material.

NHMUK 1893.2.4.1170, lectotype; 1893.2.4.1171, one paralectotype (Morelet coll.).

Remarks.

Morelet (1860) did not state on how many specimens his description was based. In Morelet (1863) the locality is specified as "sur le plateau d’Andamarca”; there are different localities with that name in southern Peru. The locality mentioned on the label is near Urubamba, from where the species has been reported by Breure (1978).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bostryx tubulatus scalaricostus (Morelet, 1860).

Figures

Figure 1. Bostryx species. A Bostryx umbilicaris (Souleyet, 1842), paralectotype NHMUK 1854.7.24.359 (H = 13.3) B Bostryx moniezi (Dautzenberg, 1896), syntype NHMUK 1908.6.13.22 (H = 12.46) C-D Bostryx infundibulum (Pfeiffer, 1853), lectotype NHMUK 1975163 (H = 18.25) E Bostryx scalaricosta (Morelet, 1860), lectotype NHMUK 1893.2.4.1170 (H = 15.5) F Bostryx hamiltoni (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1849.5.14.53 (H = 17.0) G-H Bostryx lesueurianus (Morelet, 1860), syntype NHMUK 1893.2.4.1182 (H = 22.5) I Bostryx pygmaeus costatus Weyrauch, 1960, paratype NHMUK 1975357 (H = 8.45) J Bostryx imeldae costifer Weyrauch, 1960, paratype NHMUK 1975354 (H = 9.6) K Bostryx metagyra Pilsbry & Olsson, 1949, paratype NHMUK 20100630 (H = 7.1). All enlarged.

Figure L 53. Labels. i Bulimus saccatus Pfeiffer, 1855 ii Bulimus (Leptomerus) sanctaeluciae E. A. Smith, 1889 iii Bulinus scabiosus Sowerby I, 1833 iv Bulimus scalaricosta Morelet, 1860 v Bulinus scalariformis Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832 vi Bulimus schiedeanus Pfeiffer, 1841.