Bulimus humboldtii Reeve, 1849

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 : 72

Bulimus humboldtii Reeve, 1849 Figs 37D-E , L27iii

Bulimus humboldtii Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 58 fig. 391; Breure 1979: 110.

Type locality.

”Mexico”.

Label.

”Mexico”. M.C. label style IV, V.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 27.6, D 14.5, W 6.6.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975528, lectotype and one paralectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The specimen corresponding to Reeve’s figure is selected lectotype (design. n.) to define this taxon, for which Reeve did not state on how many specimens his description was based. This taxon is considered a junior subjective synonym of Bulimus mexicanus Lamarck, 1822 by Richardson (1995: 150), which is a Peruvian species.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Drymaeus (Drymaeus) mexicanus (Lamarck, 1822).

Figures

Figure 37. Drymaeus species. A-C Drymaeus (Drymaeus) auris (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1975499 (H = 38.8) D-E Drymaeus (Drymaeus) mexicanus (Lamarck, 1822), lectotype of Bulimus humboldtii Reeve, 1849 NHMUK 1975528 (H = 27.6) F-H Drymaeus (Drymaeus) coarctatus (Pfeiffer, 1845), lectotype 1975560 (H = 34.6) I-K Drymaeus (Drymaeus) dombeyanus (Pfeiffer, 1846), syntype NHMUK 1844.10.2.32 (H = 56.8) L-N rymaeus (Drymaeus) angustus da Costa, 1906, holotype NHMUK 1907.11.21.14 (H = 31.5). All enlarged.

Figure L 27. Labels. i Bulimus hondurasanus Pfeiffer, 1846 ii Bulimus huascensis Reeve, 1848 iii Bulimus humboldtii Reeve, 1849 iv Helix hygrohylaea d'Orbigny, 1835 v Otostomus emeus hypozonus Martens, 1893 vi Bulimus ignavus Reeve, 1849.