Ampullaria simplicula

Cowie, Robert H., 2015, The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda, Zootaxa 3940 (1), pp. 1-92 : 48

simplicula

Ampullaria simplicula Mabille, 1889: 16 . Type material — lectotype ( Cowie & Héros 2012: 818 ): MNHN 4520. Type locality —“ Tonkin ” [= Vietnam; in publication title]. Distribution —no additional information. Remarks. Pila , teste Cowie & Héros (2012: 818) .

sinistrorsa

Ampullaria globosa subvar . sinistrorsa Nevill, 1885: 2. Unavailable name: infrasubspecific (Code, Art. 1.3.4).

Remarks. Nevill (1877: 2) referred to a single “reversed” specimen in the Indian Museum (NZSI) from the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, but did not name it. Nevill (1885: 2) indicated in addition to this specimen a specimen of unknown location, though labelled “ Mauritius ”, implying that this locality was in error. Prashad (1925: 73, pl. 13, figs. 10, 11) illustrated these two sinistral shells but treated them as “sinistral abnormalities of the typical P. globosa ”. NZSI 2396 appears to be the specimen from Calcutta; the other was not found in 2014.

sinistrorsa

Ampullaria globosa carinata subvar . sinistrorsa Nevill, 1885: 3. Unavailable name: infrasubspecific (Code, Art. 1.3.4).

Remarks. Nevill (1885: 3) listed a single specimen in the Indian Museum; not found in NZSI in 2014. Listed as a variety of globosa Swainson by G.B. Sowerby III (1910: 59) and Preston (1915: 97) but neither act made it available as it was not adopted as the valid name of a species or subspecies (Code, Art. 45.6.4.1).