Bulimus fibratus grammica Crosse, 1870

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 : 12

Bulimus fibratus grammica Crosse, 1870 Figs 9A, 9i

Bulimus fibratus grammica Crosse 1870: 242; Neubert et al. 2009: 62, fig. 54.

Type locality.

“Nouvelle-Calédonie”.

Label.

"New Caledonia" added in a later handwriting. "type de l’auteur” glued on shell.

Dimensions.

"Long. 111, diam. maj. 47 mill."; specimen figured herein H 111.3, D 52.5, W 7.4.

Type material.

NHMUK 1929.9.14.5, syntype, ex Marie coll.

Remarks.

In the recent revision of New Caledonian Placostylus ( Neubert et al. 2009) an argument is made for the current systematic position of this taxon.

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Placostylus fibratus goroensis (Souverbie, 1870).

Figures

Figure 9. Placostylus species. A, i Placostylus fibratus goroensis (Souverbie in Souverbie and Montrouzier, 1870), syntype of Bulimus fibratus grammica Crosse, 1870 NHM 1929.9.14.15 (H = 111.3) B, ii Placostylus fibratus souvillei (Morelet, 1857), lectotype NHM 1893.2.4.1529 (H = 116.5) C, iii Placostylus porphyrostomus porphyrostomus (Pfeiffer, 1851), holotype of Bulimus singularis Morelet, 1857 NHM 1893.2.4.1530 (H = 70.0) D, iv Placostylus eddystonensis eddystonensis (Pfeiffer, 1855), lectotype NHM 1975230 (H = 73.3) E, v Placostylus eddystonensis savesi (Crosse, 1886), holotype NHM 1929.9.14.7 (H = 57.5) F, vi Placostylus caledonicus (Petit de la Saussaye, 1845), possible syntype of Bulimus edwardsianus Gassies, 1863 NHM 1883.11.10.1172 (H = 72.0). All reduced in size.