Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

patulus Troschel, 1837 Fig. 34

Limnaeus patulus Troschel 1837: 167.

Limnaeus patulus Clessin 1886: 378, pl. 50, fig. 3.

Limnaea acuminata var. patula Preston 1915: 107.

Limnaea acuminata var. patula Annandale and Rao 1925: 181, fig. III (9).

Lymnaea auricularia race rufescens Hubendick 1951: 157, fig. 344.

Lymnaea acuminata f. patula Subba Rao 1989: 127, figs 256, 257.

Type material.

The syntypes of Limnaeus patulus in ZMB are placed in two samples: No. 8044 (25 syntypes) and 72990 (a single syntype). leg. Lamare Piquot.

Type locality.

India, the Ganges River.

Current taxonomic allocation.

Radix (Radix) rufescens .

Syntypes dimensions.

See Table 1.