Bulimus angasianus Pfeiffer, 1864

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 : 4

Bulimus angasianus Pfeiffer, 1864 Figs 2A-B, iii

Bulimus angasianus Pfeiffer 1864: 528; B.J. Smith 1992: 101.

Bothriembryon (Bothriembryon) angasianus (Pfeiffer); Breure 1979: 93.

Type locality.

"Port Lincoln, South Australia".

Label.

"Port Lincoln / South Australia"; presumably in Angas’ handwriting.

Dimensions.

"Long. 25 1/2, diam. 14 mill."; syntype H 20.6 D 14.6, W 4.5.

Type material.

NHMUK 1870.10.26.176, one syntype (Angas coll.).

Remarks.

The label bears “type” in the original handwriting, but the specimen does not match the dimensions given by Pfeiffer. There are three additional syntypes in the Angas collection in the Hancock Museun [now part of the Great North Museum in Newcastle-upon-Tyne] (D. Gordon, pers. comm.)

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon angasianus (Pfeiffer, 1864).

Figures

Figure 2. Bothriembryon species. A-B, iii Bothriembryon angasianus (Pfeiffer, 1864), syntype NHM 1870.10.26.276 (H = 20.6) C-E, ii Bothriembryon brazieri (Angas, 1871, lectotype NHM 1870.11.5.8 (H = 14.3) E detail of sculpture (x 3.5) F-G, i Bothriembryon kingii (J. E. Gray, 1825), lectotype NHM 1975910 (H = 19.1) H-I, iv Bothriembryon melo (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832), lectotype of Bulimus physoides Reeve, 1848 NHM 1975224 (H = 19.2) J-K, v Bulimus spenceri (Tate, 1894), syntype NHM 1895.10.2.202 (H = 17.5).