Limnaeus elmeteitensis, Smith, 1894

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 : 134

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

elmeteitensis Smith, 1894 Fig. 15

Limnaea elmeteitensis Smith 1894: 167, fig. 5.

Lymnaea elmeteitensis Hubendick 1951: 59, fig. 74.

Limnaea elmeteitensis Kilias 1961: 163.

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

Type material.

Three syntypes of Limnaea elmeteitensis kept under No. 47554. The largest of them is 21.2 mm height. The rest of the type series is, probably, in BMNH.

Type locality.

Kenya, lakes Baringo and Elmeteita.

Current taxonomic allocation.

Radix (Radix) natalensis (Krauss, 1848).