Bulimus infundibulum Gassies, 1871

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 : 14

Bulimus infundibulum Gassies, 1871 Figs 8A, 8i

Bulimus infundibulum Gassies 1871: 86; Breure and Schouten 1985: 69; Neubert et al. 2009: 55, fig. 23.

Type locality.

[New Caledonia] “Ilôt Koutoumo, sud de la Nouvelle-Calédonie”.

Label.

No locality label. Taxon label in Gassies’ handwriting and marked “T”.

Dimensions.

"Long. 75 mill.; diam. maj. 40"; holotype H 75.6, D 46, W 6.5.

Type material.

NHMUK 1883.11.10.1163, holotype, ex Gassies.

Remarks.

Gassies (1871) remarked that he had seen only one specimen. The single specimen known is a monstrosity; it is marked “241” on the last whorl.

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Placostylus fibratus guestieri (Gassies, 1869)

Figures

Figure 8. Placostylus fibratus subspecies. A-D Placostylus fibratus guestieri (Gassies, 1869) A, i Bulimus infundibulum Gassies, 1871, holotype NHM 1883.11.10.1163 (H = 75.6) B-C, iii Bulimus souvillei gatopensis Crosse, 1870, syntype NHM 1929.9.14.4 (H = 94.5) D, ii Bulimus pinicola Gassies, 1870, syntype NHM 1883.11.10.1164 (H = 92.8) E-H Placostylus fibratus ouveanus (Dotzauer in Mousson, 1869) E-F Bulimus ouveanus sinistorsa Crosse, 1884, NHM 1929.9.14.8 (H = 49.2) G-H Bulimus ouveanus alba Crosse, 1874, holotype NHM 1929.9.14.6 (H = 48.1) I, iv Placostylus fibratus alexander (Crosse, 1855), holotype of Bulimus necouensis Gassies, 1871 NHM 1883.11.10.1175 (H = 73.9). All reduced in size.