Limnaeus humerosa, von Martens, 1897

Vinarski, Maxim V., 2016, Annotated type catalogue of lymnaeid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (1), pp. 131-152 : 135

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.92.8107

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2589CECE-F1F5-4D0F-AC4E-F032A70FB03F

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6C9F3A97-9511-6D5C-792C-C950B97329A1

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scientific name

Limnaeus humerosa
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

humerosa von Martens, 1897 Fig. 23

Limnaea humerosa von Martens 1897b: 135, pl. 6, fig. 1.

Lymnaea natalensis Hubendick 1951: 158, figs 345-347.

Limnaea humerosa Kilias 1961: 163.

Lymnaea natalensis Brown 1994: 166, figs 76 a, b; 79a.

Type material.

The lectotype (ZMB No. 101518) and six paralectotypes (No. 101519) in ZMB collection. The lectotype was designated by Kilias (1961), its shell height is 23.4 mm.

Type locality.

Uganda, Mengo, in an artificial pond leg. Stuhlmann (05.01.1891) - locality of the lectotype. von Martens (1897b) mentioned more locations of this species in Uganda and other regions of East Africa.

Current taxonomic allocation.

Radix (Radix) natalensis .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Family

Lymnaeidae

Genus

Limnaeus