Limnaeus nyansae, von Martens, 1892

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 : 136-137

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

nyansae von Martens, 1892 Fig. 31

Limnaea nyansae von Martens 1892: 16.

Lymnaea nyansae Hubendick 1951: 60, fig. 76.

Limnaea nyansae Kilias 1961: 164.

Lymnaea natalensis Brown 1994: 166, figs 76 a, b; 79a.

Type material.

16 shells (syntypes) from the type locality are kept in ZMB under accession number 101521. Kilias (1961) reported that he intended one of these shells to be the lectotype of Limnaea nyansae and separated it under No. 101521a, however I was not able to find this specimen in ZMB collection. Probably, it is still placed among other syntypes under No. 101521. The largest shell in this sample reaches 15.3 mm height.

Type locality.

The western shore of the Victoria Lake, near Bukoba and Towalio.

Current taxonomic allocation.

Radix (Radix) natalensis .