Vitrina salomonia Pfeiffer, 1853

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 : 43

Vitrina salomonia Pfeiffer, 1853 Figs 26i-iii, L16iv

Vitrina salomonia Pfeiffer 1853a: 51; Pfeiffer 1853b: 623; Pfeiffer 1854a: 60.

Simpulopsis salomonia ; Pfeiffer 1854 in Küster and Pfeiffer 1840-1865: 29, pl. 6 figs 17-19; Reeve 1862: pl. 2 fig. 8.

Simpulopsis (?) salomonia ; Pilsbry 1899: 226, pl. 63 figs 76-78.

Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) rufovirens (Moricand); Breure 1978: 232 (lectotype designation).

Type locality.

"in insulis Salomonis".

Label.

"Solomons Isl", taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style III.

Dimensions.

"Long. 11, diam. 9 mill.". Figured specimen H 11.1, D 10.7, W 4.5.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975485, lectotype (Cuming coll.).

Remarks.

Pfeiffer did not state on how many specimens his description was based, but noted "Mus. Cuming". He also remarked "Diese Art ist mit der brasilianischen Gruppe Simpulopsis Beck sehr nahe verwandt", which might have led Pilsbry (1899: 226) to suggest that the locality given by Pfeiffer was erroneous. Breure (1978) suggested that this taxon might be a junior subjective synonym of Helix (Succinea) rufovirens Moricand, 1846. Richardson (1995: 367) considered this taxon as a separate species; Simone (2006) did not mention it at all. Tentatively the classification of this taxon by Breure (1978) is herein retained, until a further revision of this group clarifies its taxonomic status.

Current systematic position.

Simpulopsidae , Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) rufovirens (Moricand, 1846).