Limnaeus shantungensis, 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 : 139

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

shantungensis Jones & Preston, 1904 Fig. 40

Limnaea (Gulnaria) shantungensis Jones and Preston 1904: 142, fig. 4.

Lymnaea shantungensis Hubendick 1951: pl. IV, fig. 10.

Limnaea shantungensis Kilias 1961: 165.

Type material.

ZMB collection contains a single syntype (accession number 59227), its shell height is 8.1 mm. Hubendick (1951, pl. IV, fig. 10) illustrated the “type” (? syntype) of this species (BMNH collection). Another syntype is kept in NHMV (accession number 40698).

Type locality.

East China, "Shantung, Wei Hai Wei" (= Shandong Province).

Current taxonomic allocation.

Orientogalba viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834).