Limnaeus whartoni, Jones & Preston, 1904

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 : 140-141

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

whartoni Jones & Preston, 1904 Fig. 51

Limnaea (Gulnaria) whartoni Jones and Preston 1904: 142, fig. 1.

Lymnaea whartoni Hubendick 1951: 72, fig. 152; pl. IV, fig. 14.

Limnaea whartoni Kilias 1961: 165.

Type material.

ZMB collection contains a single syntype (accession number 59226), its shell height is 16.3 mm. Hubendick (1951, pl. IV, fig. 14) illustrated the “type” (? syntype) of this species (BMNH collection). A single shell collected from the type locality and labelled as "M. Preston No. 49" is kept in MNHN (without accession number).

Type locality.

East China, "Liu Shi Tao, north-east promontory of Shantung".

Current taxonomic allocation.

Possibly, Radix plicatula .