Bulimus irroratus Reeve, 1849

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2015, Annotated type catalogue of the Megaspiridae, Orthalicidae, and Simpulopsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 470, pp. 17-143 : 32-33

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scientific name	Bulimus irroratus Reeve, 1849
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Treatment

Bulimus irroratus Reeve, 1849 Figs 15i-ii, L10iii

Bulimus irroratus Reeve 1849 [1848-1850]: pl. 62 fig. 427; Reeve 1850a: 16; Pfeiffer 1853b: 304.

Porphyrobaphe irrorata ; Pilsbry 1899: 155, pl. 51 figs 36-37; Breure and Schouten 1985: 41 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

"Brazil? New Granada?".

Label.

"Quito Ecuador", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style III.

Dimensions.

Not given. Figured specimen H 77.0, D 44.0, W 6+.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975248, three syntypes, A.L. Gubba leg. (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Reeve did not state on how many specimens his description was based, but said it was the "Mus. Cuming (...) thanks to the liberality of A.L. Gubba, Esq., of [Le] Havre". In Reeve (1850) the locality was mentioned as “-?”. The top of the specimen figured is damaged. The current systematic position is according to Richardson (1993: 119).

Current systematic position.

Orthalicidae , Porphyrobaphe irrorata (Reeve, 1849).