Bulinus pruinosus Sowerby I, 1833

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 : 131

Bulinus pruinosus Sowerby I, 1833 Figs 7F , L48vi

Bulinus pruinosus Sowerby I 1833a: 36.

Bulimus pruinosus ; Reeve 1848 [1848-1850]: pl. 20 fig. 120.

Type locality.

"in Peruviâ” (see remarks).

Label.

”Peru”. M.C. label style I.

Dimensions.

"long. 0.55, lat. 0.3 poll. [H 13.9, D 7.6 mm]"; figured specimen herein H 13.48, D 7.32, W 5.8.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975544, four syntypes (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Sowerby described this species from the Cuming collection, but did not state on how many specimens his description was based. In the remarks he stated "found on dead leaves in the clefts of rocks in the mountains of Cobija". This area now belongs to Chile.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Bostryx pruinosus (Sowerby I, 1833).

Figures

Figure 7. Bostryx species. A Bostryx erosus (Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832), syntype NHMUK 20100612 (H = 22.9) B Bostryx scalariformis (Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832), probable syntype NHMUK 20100635 (H = 11.6) C Bostryx vilchezi Weyrauch, 1960, paratype NHMUK 1975468 (H = 8.2) D Bostryx rusticellus (Morelet, 1860), lectotype NHMUK 1893.2.4.201 (H = 19.9) E Bostryx guttatus (Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832), possible syntype NHMUK 20110175 (H = 22.0) F Bostryx pruinosus (Sowerby I, 1833), syntype NHMUK 1975544 (H = 13.48) G Bostryx reentsi (Philippi, 1851), syntype of Bulimus denickei J. E. Gray, 1852, NHMUK 1851.5.15.1 (H = 26.4) H Bostryx compactus (Fulton, 1902), syntype NHMUK 1902.5.28.1 (H = 15.8) I Bostryx albicans (Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832), possible syntype NHMUK 20100611 (H = 22.1) J Bostryx albus (Sowerby I, 1833), possible syntype NHMUK 1842.5.10.149 (H = 15.0). All enlarged.

Figure L 48. Labels. i Helix polymorpha d'Orbigny, 1835 ii Drymaeus ponsonbyi da Costa, 1907 iii Bulimus praetextus Reeve, 1849 iv Drymaeus prestoni da Costa, 1906 v Bulimus primula Reeve, 1848 vi Bulinus pruinosus Sowerby I, 1833 vii Bulimus protractus Pfeiffer, 1855.