Lanistes millestriatus

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 : 21

millestriatus

Lanistes millestriatus Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 188 , pl. 18, fig. 5. Type material — holotype [by monotypy; based explicitly on a single catalogued specimen]: ANSP 120396. Type locality —“West Africa”. Distribution —no additional information.

Remarks. Brown (1994: 60) treated it under varicus Müller but did not clearly synonymize it.

+ minor

Lanistes procerus variété minor Germain, 1907d: 532. Type material —location unknown. Type locality —“le Mamoun (pays de Senoussi)” [northern Central African Republic]. Distribution —no additional information.

mweruensis

Lanistes (Meladomus) ovum mweruensis Pain, 1954: 3 , figs. 5–7. Type material — holotype [by original designation]: MCZ 109842; paratypes: MCZ 185682 (1 spm.), MCZ 185683 (14 spms.), MCZ 152483 (6 spms.), MCZ 152346 (1 spm.), MRAC 554469 (2 spms.), NMW.Z.1981.118.00219 (6 spms.), NMW.Z.1981.118.00234 (1 spm.). Type locality —“ Belgian Congo: Lake Mweru (or Moero) at Kilwa” [ Democratic Republic of the Congo].

Remarks. Paratypes from various locations in Lake Mweru: “Katenge near Kilwa”, “Pweto”, “Moba (Chamfubu River), near Pweto”. Synonym of ovum Peters , teste Mandahl-Barth (1968: 31).