Ampullaria virescens

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 : 51-52

virescens

Ampullaria virescens Deshayes in Bory de Saint Vincent, 1824: verso of livraison cover [name and author], un-numbered pl. [87], fig. 2. Type material — holotype [by monotypy]: MNHN 24513 (ex MNHN 4529). Type locality —[no locality given] [“Manille” [= Manila, Philippines] MNHN 4529]. Distribution — Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma / Myanmar (Martens 1860: 12; Dautzenberg & Fischer 1905: 426; Annandale 1920a: 9; Brandt 1974: 49; Keawjam 1986: 61, 1987: 69, 1990: 1; all as “ polita ”).

Remarks. The original publication is the plate, with the name in the legend on the plate, published in the fifth livraison of plates of the Dictionnaire, with the name and authorship given on the reverse side of the front wrapper of the livraison. The shell illustrated is therefore the holotype by monotypy. Each livraison of plates was published separately. The wrapper also explicitly states that the plates were not numbered as, once all the plates would be completed, they were to be combined in an order reflecting classification, as indeed they were in volume 17 of the Dictionnaire, published in 1831, when they were numbered sequentially. Ampullaria virescens Deshayes appeared on what was then numbered plate 87. The name polita Deshayes was introduced as an unjustified replacement name for virescens Deshayes and is therefore a junior objective synonym of virescens . For further discussion see Cowie & Héros (2012: 819) . Valid species of Pila , teste Brandt (1974: 49) and Keawjam (1986: 61, 1987: 69, 1990: 1), both as “ polita ”, and Cowie & Héros (2012: 818) .

vittata

Ampullaria vittata Reeve, 1856c : pl. 17, figs. 78a, b. Type material — syntypes: NHMUK 1986215 (3 spms.). Type locality —“ Philippine Islands ”.

Remarks. Valid species, teste G.B. Sowerby III (1910: 62). Synonym of conica Wood , teste Pagulayan & Remigio (1993: 1, etc.), followed here.

volkensi

Ampullaria gordoni Var. volkensi Martens, 1897a: 157. Type material — lectotype ( Köhler & Glaubrecht 2006: 212, fig. 3k): ZMB 109521a; paralectotypes: ZMB 109521b (3 spms.). Type locality —“Jipe-See, südöstl. vom Kilima-Ndjaro, an der Grenze des deutschen und britischen Gebiets” [Lake Jipe, southeast of Kilimanjaro, on the border between Tanzania and Kenya].

Remarks. Synonym of wernei Philippi , teste Pain (1961: 18).

wellesleyensis

Ampullaria wellesleyensis de Morgan, 1885: 419, pl. 8, figs. 13a–d. Type material — lectotype ( Cowie & Héros 2012: 819 ): MNHN 24514 (ex MNHN 4527); paralectotypes: MNHN 4527 (1 spm.), RBINS MT 1157 (1 spm.). Type locality —“les ruisseaux de la province Wellesley... aux environs de Boukit Tamboun” [Perak, Peninsula Malaysia].

Remarks. Valid species, teste G.B. Sowerby III (1910: 62) and Kobelt (1912b: 91). Synonym of scutata Mousson , teste Habe (1964: 49; as “ ampullaria ”), Brandt (1974: 52), Low et al. (2013: 56) and Ng et al. (2014: 34), followed here.

welwitschi

Ampullaria Welwitschi Bourguignat, 1879: 31 [name made available by bibliographic reference to Morelet (1868: pl. 9, fig. 10)]. Type material — holotype [by monotypy]: the shell illustrated by Morelet, location unknown [not found in MHNG, MNHN, MRAC or NHMUK (cf. Dance 1986: 219)]. Type locality —“dans le Niger ” ( Morelet 1868: 94).

Remarks. Valid species, teste Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 176). Synonym of wernei Philippi , teste Pain (1961: 18), followed here.