Bulimus amandus Pfeiffer, 1855

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 : 15

Bulimus amandus Pfeiffer, 1855 Figs 19C , L4ii

Bulimus amandus Pfeiffer 1855d: 96, pl. 31 fig. 4; Breure 1979: 117 (lectotype designation).

Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) amandus ; Breure and Eskens 1981: 50.

Type locality.

”Venezuela”.

Label.

No locality given. No taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 30, diam. 11 1/2 mill."; lectotype H 29, D 13.1, W 6.3.

Type material.

NHMUK 1997457, lectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

The lectotype corresponds to Pfeiffer’s figure, although the colours have faded. The current systematic position corresponds to Richardson (1995: 97).

Current systematic position.

Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) amandus (Pfeiffer, 1855).

Figures

Figure 19. Drymaeus species. A-B Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) aestivus (Pfeiffer, 1857), syntype NHMUK 1975462 (H = 16.9) C Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) amandus (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHMUK 1975457 (H = 29.0) D Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) castus (Pfeiffer, 1847), lectotype NHMUK 1975197 (H = 19.0) E-F Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) championi (Martens, 1893), lectotype NHMUK 1901.6.22.451 (H = 27.0) G-H Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) umbraticus (Reeve, 1850) G lectotype NHMUK 1975184 (H = 15.3) H lectotype of Bulimus floridanus Pfeiffer, 1857 NHMUK 1975199 (H = 16.7) I-J Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) columbiensis (Pfeiffer, 1856), lectotype NHMUK 1975521 (H = 28.0) K-L Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) columbianus (Lea, 1838), lectotype of Bulimus hachensis Reeve, 1850 NHMUK 1975392 (H = 26.4). All enlarged.

Figure L 4. Labels. i Bulimus altoperuvianus Reeve, 1849 ii Bulimus amandus Pfeiffer, 1855 iii Bulimus ambustus Reeve, 1849 iv Bulimus andicola Pfeiffer, 1847 v Bulimus andoicus Morelet, 1863 vi Drymaeus angustus da Costa, 1906.