Placostylus sanchristovalensis vicinus B. Rensch, 1934

Breure, Abraham S. H., 2013, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, ZooKeys 279, pp. 1-101 : 52

Placostylus sanchristovalensis vicinus B. Rensch, 1934 Figs 12C, 12v

Placostylus sanchristovalensis vicinus B. Rensch in I. and B. Rensch 1934: 452; I. and B. Rensch 1935: 76, pl. 1 fig. 5.

Eumecostylus vicinus ; Delsaerdt 2010: 42, pl. 6 figs 1-9.

Type locality.

[Solomon Islands] "Guadalcanar. Aola".

Label.

"warscheinlich Guadalcanar" "Aola, Guadalcanar", both in Rensch’s handwriting.

Dimensions.

“Höhe 58.2-61.2 mm; Durchm. 23.0-28.4 mm"; figured specimen herein H 63.6, D 27.5, W 5.7.

Type material.

ZMB 78702, one paratype; 78703, one paratype; both E. Paravicini leg.

Remarks.

Rensch and Rensch (1935: 77) wrote "Es liegen 5 Exemplare von Aola auf Guadalcanar vor, 2 Stücke von Rotalu, und 1 ohne Fundort, das den anderen so ähnlich ist, dass es wohl auch als von diesen Gebieten stammend betrachtet werden kann". The last specimen is ZMB 78702 ("warscheinlich Guadalcanar"); Delsaerdt (2010: 42) mentioned "NMB (3952a) 2 paratypes, ... Rotalu; (3952c) 5 paratypes ... Aola)". However, the status of the Berlin specimens is not disputed since each label reads “Paratyp” in the handwriting of Rensch. The current systematic position is after Delsaerdt (2010).

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae , Eumecostylus vicinus (B. Rensch, 1934).

Figures

Figure 12. A, i-iii Placostylus scarabus (Albers, 1854), syntype ZMB 101820 (H = 53.8) Photo: C. Zorn B, iv Aspastus paravicinianus (B. Rensch, 1934), paratype ZMB 78711 (H = 66.6) C, v Eumecostylus vicinus (B. Rensch, 1934), paratype ZMB 78702 (H = 63.6).