Bulimus mollicellus 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 : 98

Bulimus mollicellus Reeve, 1849 Figs 60I-J , L37vi

Bulimus mollicellus Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 77 fig. 565; Breure 1979: 63.

Bulimulus mollicellus ; Breure 1978: 146 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

”-?”.

Label.

See remarks. M.C. label style III, V.

Dimensions.

Not given; figured specimen herein H 17.2, D 7.88, W 5.8.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975185, lectotype; 1975186, one paralectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Reeve did not state on how many specimens his description was based; of the two specimens the smaller corresponds to Reeve’s figure. Lubomirski (1880: 725) identified a shell collected by Jelski in Peru, Dept. Junín, Tarma as this species (" Bulimus (Leptomerus) molecillus [sic]", an error in the name which has been copied by Pilsbry 1897 [1897-1898]: 63). The voucher material is known to exist in the Warsaw museum (D. Mierzwa, pers. commun.); a photograph suggests a conspecific identification for this specimen, which would thereby disclose the region of occurrence for this taxon.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bulimulus mollicellus (Reeve, 1849).

Figures

Figure 60. Bulimulus species. A-B Bulimulus fuscus (Guilding, 1828), lectotype of Bulimus barbadensis Pfeiffer, 1853 NHMUK 1974054 (H = 21.3) C-D Bulimulus (?) dukinfieldi Melvill, 1900 [nomen inquirendum], lectotype NHM 1900.9.27.2 (H = 28.1) E-F Bulimulus cacticolus (Reeve, 1849), syntype NHMUK 20100515 (H = 24.4) G-H Bulimulus erectus (Reeve, 1849), syntype NHMUK 20100516 (H = 22.0) I-J Bulimulus mollicellus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975185 (H = 17.2) K-L Bulimulus coriaceus (Pfeiffer, 1857), syntype NHMUK 1975409 (H = 17.1). All enlarged.

Figure L 37. Labels. i Bulimus martinicensis Pfeiffer, 1846 ii Bulimus meleagris Pfeiffer, 1853 iii Bulimus mejillonensis Pfeiffer in Pfeiffer and Dunker, 1857 iv Bulimus meridanus Pfeiffer, 1846 v Bostryx metagyra Pilsbry & Olsson, 1949 vi Bulimus mollicellus Reeve, 1849 vii Bulimus monachus Pfeiffer, 1857 viii Bulimulus (Bostryx) moniezi Dautzenberg, 1896 ix Bulimus montagnei d'Orbigny, 1837.