Bulimus fuligineus Pfeiffer, 1853

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 : 11-12

Bulimus fuligineus Pfeiffer, 1853 Figs 15A, 15i

Bulimus fuligineus Pfeiffer 1853b: 301; Pfeiffer 1854, in Küster and Pfeiffer 1840-1865: 157, pl. 48 figs 5-6.

Bulimus fuligineus var. β Pfeiffer 1859: 363.

Placostylus (Santacharis) fuligineus (Pfeiffer); Solem 1959: 134, pl. 8 figs 3, 6.

Type locality.

[Vanuatu] "Novis Hebridis".

Label.

"New Hebrides". "Isle of Aneiteum"; taxon labels in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style IV.

Dimensions.

"Long. 38, diam. 16 mill."; lectotype H 39.4, D 19.2, W 4.6.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975226, lectotype and two paralectotypes; 20100650, three paralectotypes of the varietal form, all Macgillivray leg. (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Two lots, each consisting of three specimens proved to be present, one corresponding to the variety recognized by Pfeiffer (1859). All material was taken at Vanuatu, Prov. Tafea, Anatom (of which Anaiteum and Aneityum are a few of the variant names), according to the label glued inside the aperture of one of the specimens and the label of the variety lot. The specimen figured by Pfeiffer (1854: pl. 48 figs 5-6) is now seclected lectotype (design. n.).

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Santacharis fuligineus (Pfeiffer, 1853).

Figures

Figure 15. Santacharis species. A, i Santacharis fuligineus (Pfeiffer, 1853), lectotype NHM 1975226 (H = 39.4) B-C Santacharis salomonis (Pfeiffer, 1853) B, ii Lectotype NHM 1975234 (H = 33.6) C, iii Lectotype of Bulimus pyrostomus Pfeiffer, 1860 NHM 1975235 (H = 41.5).