Pupa spixii major d'Orbigny , 1837

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2012, Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 182, pp. 1-70 : 17-18

Pupa spixii major d'Orbigny, 1837 Figs 22A-E, 22i

Helix spixii var. major d’Orbigny 1835: 21 [nomen nudum].

Pupa spixii var. α major d’Orbigny 1837 [1834-1847]: 320.

Pupa spixii ( d’Orbigny); Gray 1854: 23 [partim].

Spixia striata (Spix); Breure 1976: 1158 [partim].

Type locality.

"...pays habité par les Guarayos, au sein des forêts humides des frontiers nord de la province de Chiquitos ( république de Bolivia), et dans la province de Corrientes ( république Argentine), en un bois voisin de la rivière de Santa-Lucia, au lieu dit "Pasto reito ””; see Breure 1973: 122.

Label.

Two labels, “guarayos” and "corrientes, Rep. Argentina", both in d’Orbigny’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. var. A, 35 millim., (...) Lat. var. A, 12 millim."; lectotype H 34.8, D 11, W 10.6.

Type material.

NHMUK 1854.12.4.232, lectotype, matching best the original shell height; NHMUK 1854.12.4.232, six paralectotypes ( d’Orbigny coll.).

Remarks.

In d’Orbigny (1835) only the name of this taxon is mentioned, together with a locality, thus it was invalidly published. The first valid publication is in d’Orbigny 1837 [1834-1847], where only a brief description was given but no figures of the ventral view of the shell (only a side view of a living snail). There is no explicit mentioning of "var. major " on the label, as d’Orbigny has done with varieties of other taxa; the only link are the localities quoted in his original paper. This taxon is here figured for the first time. As the lots referring to Pupa spixii refer to two taxa, a lectotype is here designated for each (design. n.); see also minor d’Orbigny.

Current systematic position.

Odontotomidae, Spixia striata (Spix, 1827).

Figures

Figure 22. A-E, i Spixia striata (Spix, 1827), lectotype of Pupa spixii major (d'Orbigny, 1837) NHM 1854.12.4.232 (H = 34.8) E apical whorls (scale equals 5 mm) F-G, ii Clessinia costata (Pfeiffer, 1848), lectotype NHM 1975250 (H = 17.8).