Limnaeus nucleus, Troschel, 1837

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 : 136

Taxon classification Animalia Hygrophila Lymnaeidae

nucleus Troschel, 1837 Fig. 30

Limnaeus nucleus Troschel 1837: 171.

Limnaea acuminata var. nucleus von Martens 1881: 82, pl. 15, figs 8, 9.

Limnaeus nucleus Clessin 1886: 378, pl. 50, fig. 6.

Limnaea acuminata var. nucleus Preston 1915: 109.

Limnaea luteola f. ovalis Annandale and Rao 1925: 184, fig. IV (2)

Type material.

Ten syntypes are kept in ZMB under accession number 8051. The largest syntype’s shell is 23.0 mm height.

Type locality.

India, the Ganges River.

Current taxonomic allocation.

A junior synonym of Cerasina luteola .