Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

nucleus Troschel, 1837 Fig. 30

Limnaeus nucleus Troschel 1837: 171.

Limnaea acuminata var. nucleus von Martens 1881: 82, pl. 15, figs 8, 9.

Limnaeus nucleus Clessin 1886: 378, pl. 50, fig. 6.

Limnaea acuminata var. nucleus Preston 1915: 109.

Limnaea luteola f. ovalis Annandale and Rao 1925: 184, fig. IV (2)

Type material.

Ten syntypes are kept in ZMB under accession number 8051. The largest syntype’s shell is 23.0 mm height.

Type locality.

India, the Ganges River.

Current taxonomic allocation.

A junior synonym of Cerasina luteola .