Limnaeus patulus, Troschel, 1837

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 : 137

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

patulus Troschel, 1837 Fig. 34

Limnaeus patulus Troschel 1837: 167.

Limnaeus patulus Clessin 1886: 378, pl. 50, fig. 3.

Limnaea acuminata var. patula Preston 1915: 107.

Limnaea acuminata var. patula Annandale and Rao 1925: 181, fig. III (9).

Lymnaea auricularia race rufescens Hubendick 1951: 157, fig. 344.

Lymnaea acuminata f. patula Subba Rao 1989: 127, figs 256, 257.

Type material.

The syntypes of Limnaeus patulus in ZMB are placed in two samples: No. 8044 (25 syntypes) and 72990 (a single syntype). leg. Lamare Piquot.

Type locality.

India, the Ganges River.

Current taxonomic allocation.

Radix (Radix) rufescens .

Syntypes dimensions.

See Table 1.