Bulimus aulacostylus Pfeiffer, 1853

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 10

Bulimus aulacostylus Pfeiffer, 1853 Figs 8D-E, 8i

Bulimus aulacostylus Pfeiffer 1853: 316.

Type locality.

[West Indies] "St. Lucia".

Label.

"India occident. / Inz. St. Luzia", label in Albers’ handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 37; lat. 18 mill."; figured specimen herein H 37.6, D 21.2, W 4.8.

Type material.

ZMB 112723, one probable syntype; ex Albers coll., ex Cuming coll.

Remarks.

Pfeiffer described this species from "Mus. Cuming", without mentioning on how many specimens he based his description on. Type material of this taxon has not been found in the NHMUK collection ( Breure and Ablett 2011). It is known that Albers received many shells from Cuming, either directly or indirectly; although a taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting is not present, there is hardly any doubt that this material is a syntype.

Current systematic position.

Amphibulimidae , Plekocheilus (Eurytus) aulacostylus (Pfeiffer, 1853).

Figures

Figure 8. Plekocheilus (Eurytus) species A-C, ii Plekocheilus (Eurytus) lugubris (Dunker, 1882), probable syntype ZMB 117760 (H = 50.4) D-E, i Plekocheilus (Eurytus) aulacostylus (Pfeiffer, 1853), probable syntype ZMB 112723 (H = 37.6).