Bulimus onslowi Cox, 1864

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Whisson, Corey S., 2012, Annotated type catalogue of Bothriembryon (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in Australian museums, with a compilation of types in other museums, ZooKeys 194, pp. 41-80 : 50

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.194.2721

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Bulimus onslowi Cox, 1864
status

 

Bulimus onslowi Cox, 1864 Fig. 5H View Figure 5

Bulimus onslowi Cox 1864: 185; Kendrick and Wilson 1975: 308, pl. 5 figs 1a-b; B.J. Smith 1992: 106.

Type locality.

"Dirk Hartog’s Island, Shark Bay, Western Australia".

Label.

See Remarks.

Dimensions.

"Long. 0.85, diam. 0.60 unc. [H 21.6, D 15.2 mm]"; figured specimen H 21.7, D 13.9, W 4.6.

Type material.

AM C84882, syntype.

Remarks.

Kendrick and Wilson (1975) have discussed the type specimen, clarifying that the original label has been lost and that "the dimensions differ slightly from those given by Cox".

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon onslowi (Cox, 1864).

Cox, JC, 1864. Descriptions of twenty-six new species of Australian land-shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 14: 185.

Kendrick, GW, Wilson, BR, 1975. Nomenclatural notes on the land snail genus Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894 (Pulmonata: Bulimulidae), with redescriptions of the types and two other species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 3: 295 - 325

Smith, BJ, 1992. Non-marine Mollusca. In: Houston WWK (Ed) Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 8. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, xii + 405 pp.

Gallery Image

Figure 5. A-B Bothriembryon mastersi (Cox, 1867) A Possible syntype, SAMA D 11341 (H = 17.4) B Holotype of B. decresensis Cotton, 1940, SAMA D 13773 (H = 15.5) Photo: R. Hamilton-Bruce C-E B. costulatus (Lamarck, 1822) C Syntype of Bulimus inflatus Lamarck, 1822, MHNG INV 51162 (H = 26.0) Photo: Y. Finet D Holotype of B. onslowi hartogensis Kobelt, 1901, SMF 25909 / 1 a (H = 12.9) Photo: E. Neubert E S yntype of B. onslowi minor Pilsbry, 1900, ANSP 78504 (H = 14.4) Photo: A. Lawless F B. bradshawi Iredale, 1939, syntype, AM C 100749 (H = 19.0) G B. sedgwicki Iredale, 1939, syntype, AM C 100831 (H = 15.9) H B. onslowi (Cox, 1864), syntype, AM C 84882 (H = 21.7) I B. praecelsus Iredale, 1939, holotype, WAM S 14468 (H = 27.1).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Bulimulidae

Genus

Bulimus