Helix tupacii d'Orbigny , 1835

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 : 166

Helix tupacii d'Orbigny, 1835 Figs 68D-E , L62iv

Helix tupacii d’Orbigny 1835: 16.

Bulimus tupacii ; d’Orbigny 1837 [1834-1847]: 292, pl. 38 figs 1-5 [19 June / 7 Aug 1837; text 6 May 1838]; Gray 1854: 18.

Scutalus tupacii ; Breure 1975b: 1144, pl. 2 fig. 3 (lectotype designation); Cuezzo et al. 2013: 161.

Type locality.

"provincia Yungasensi (republica Boliviana)"; restricted to Dept. La Paz, Yanacachi ( Breure 1975b).

Label.

"cavari. Sicasica. Bolivia " [.113], "Palca d’ayapaya, Bolivia" [.114], "yungas Bolivia " [.115], all in d’Orbigny’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Longit. 4 centim.; latit. 2 centim."; figured specimen herein H 76.0, D 35.3, W 6+.

Type material.

NHMUK 1854.12.4.113, four paralectotypes; 1854.12.4.114, five paralectotypes; 1854.12.4.115, seven paralectotypes (all d’Orbigny coll.).

Remarks.

d’Orbigny (1835) did not state on how many specimens his description was based. In d’Orbigny 1838 [1834-1847]: 292 he corrected the measurements as "Long. ex 40 ad 75 millim.; lat. ex 12 ad 35 millim.". In this paper he also specified the localities as "principalement à Yanacache et à Chupé, dans la province de Yungas, et dans celles de Sicasica et d’Ayapaya”; see also Breure (1973: 133, fig. 7). Breure (1975b) selected a lectotype from among the syntypes, present in the MNHN collection without locality data. In the three lots at the NHMUK one specimen from lot 1854.12.4.113 can be matched to d’Orbigny’s pl. 38 fig. 5 (H 76.0, D 35.3, W 6+; top damaged), another from the same lot corresponds to pl. 38 fig. 4 (H 69.8, D 35.8, W 7.0).

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) tupacii ( d’Orbigny, 1835) (comb. n.).

Figures

Figure 68. Kuschelenia species. A Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) thamnoica (d'Orbigny, 1835), paralectotype NHMUK 1854.12.4.111 (H = 44.0) B-C Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) alauda Hupe, 1857 B paralectotype of Helix thamnoica var. B d'Orbigny 1835 NHMUK 1854.12.4.109 (H = 52.7) C lectotype of Helix thamnoica var. D d'Orbigny 1835 NHMUK 1854.12.4.108 (H = 40.8) D-E Kuschelenia (Kuschelenia) tupacii (d'Orbigny, 1835), paralectotype NHMUK 1854.12.4.113 (H = 76.0). All enlarged.

Figure L 62. Labels. i Bulimus tristis Pfeiffer, 1855 ii Bulimus tropicalis Morelet, 1849 iii Bulimus tumidulus Pfeiffer, 1842 iv Helix tupacii d'Orbigny, 1835 v Helix turritella d'Orbigny, 1835 vi Bulinus turritus Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832.