Buliminus H. Beck, 1837

Ruud, A. Bank, Henk P. M. G Menkhorst & Eike Neubert, 2016, Descriptions of new and little-known land snail taxa from Turkey, and establishment of a new genus (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Lauriidae, Enidae and Vitrinidae), Basteria 80 (1), pp. 5-30 : 8

Buliminus H. Beck, 1837

Bulimina Ehrenberg, 1831 : folio D [2, 4]. Type species (by monotypy): Bulimus labrosus Olivier, 1804 . Preoccupied by Bulimina d'Orbigny, 1826 (Foraminifera) .

Buliminus H. Beck, 1837: 68 . Type species (by typification of replaced name): Bulimus labrosus Olivier, 1804 . Unjustified emendation of Bulimina Ehrenberg, 1831 , but placed on the “Official List of Generic Names in Zoology” by Opinion 2018 (2003: 63).

Petraeus Albers, 1850: 183 . Type species (by subsequent designation of E. von Martens, 1860: 233): Bulimus labrosus Olivier, 1804 .

Sesteria Bourguignat, 1884: 135 -136. Type species (by monotypy): Sesteria gallandi Bourguignat, 1884 .

Several Buliminus taxa have been reported from Turkey by Gittenberger & Menkhorst (1991). These are B. akkumensis Gittenberger & Menkhorst, 1991 ; B. alepensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1841) ; B. carneus (L. Pfeiffer, 1841) ; B. corpulentus Gittenberger & Menkhorst, 1991 ; B. exquisitus Nägele, 1901; B. labrosus labrosus (Olivier, 1801 ) and B. labrosus egregius Nägele, 1902. We follow the opinion of Heller (1974, 1975), and consider Buliminus and Pene Pallary, 1929 , as separate genera. Consequently, the taxa mentioned by Gittenberger & Menkhorst (1991) under Buliminus (Pene) are not considered species of Buliminus . The epithet corpulentus has been replaced by Gittenberger & Menkhorst (2006) by corpulentior , as it was preoccupied by Buliminus cantori var. corpulenta Gredler, 1884 . Furthermore, Schütt & Şeşen (2001) added another Buliminus species to the fauna of Turkey, by revealing that Sesteria gallandi Bourguignat, 1884 , belongs to Buliminus . Bank & Neubert (2016: 11), in their revision of the Iranian Enidae , made remarks on several Turkish Buliminus taxa. They showed that egregius is best regarded a separate species (not a subspecies of labrosus ), and that the labrosus labrosus shells from Turkey cannot be designated to labrosus . Bank & Neubert assumed that the latter taxon might be undescribed. A revision of the entire available material from Turkey revealed us, that the shells can be assigned to B. corpulentior , and that B. corpulentior has therefore a wider distribution and is more variable as previously thought. We therefore give an improved description of this little-known taxon.