Ampullaria polita, Deshayes, 1830

Cowie, Robert H. & Héros, Virginie, 2012, Annotated catalogue of the types of Ampullariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with lectotype designations, Zoosystema 34 (4), pp. 793-824 : 813

polita Deshayes, 1830 , Ampullaria

( Fig. 7D )

Ampullaria polita Deshayes, 1830: 31 .

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Pila (Pila) . Objective synonym of virescens Deshayes, 1824 (see Remarks).

TYPE SPECIMEN. — As for Ampullaria virescens Deshayes, 1824 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — As for Ampullaria virescens .

REMARKS

The name Ampullaria polita Deshayes, 1830 (p. 31) was introduced as a replacement name for Ampullaria virescens Deshayes, 1824 , for fear of confusing the latter with Ampullaria virens Lamarck, 1822 (p. 179). Since A. virens and A. virescens are not homonyms, A. polita is an unnecessary replacement name and therefore a junior objective synonym of A. virescens , with the same name-bearing type (ICZN 1999b: art. 72.7), the holotype, for discussion of which see Ampullaria virescens . Although labels associated with a shell from Deshayes’ collection, MNHN 5145, state that it is the “type” of A. polita , in fact it has no nomenclatural status.

Figures

FIG. 7. — A, Ampullaria simplicula Mabille,1889,lectotype MNHN 4520, 29.1 mm;B, Lanistes ellipticus var.β trapeziformis Furtado,1886, lectotype MNHN 23089, 52.8 mm;C, Ampullaria violacea Valenciennes,1833,holotype MNHN 4530, 43.1 mm;D, Ampullaria virescens Deshayes in Bory de Saint-Vincent,1824,holotype MNHN 24513,54.7 mm (also lectotype of Ampullaria polita Deshayes,1830);E, Ampullaria wellesleyensis Morgan,1885,lectotype MNHN 24514, 34.1 mm; F, Lanistes zambesianus Furtado,1886,holotype MNHN 4525, 55.6 mm; G, Ampullaria zonata d’Orbigny, 1835, syntype MNHN 4523, 38.2 mm (also lectotype of Ampullaria spixii d’Orbigny, 1838).