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Helix poecila d'Orbigny 1835

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands. & Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. E-mail: ashbreure @ gmail. com

Description

Helix poecila d’Orbigny, 1835

Fig. 53

Helix poecila d’Orbigny, 1835: 11. – Breure & Ablett, 2014: 153, figs 45M-N, L47iii.

Bulimus poecilus. – d’Orbigny, 1837 [1834-1847]: 268, pl. 21 figs 1-10. – Gray, 1854: 15.

Drymaeus cf. draparnaudi (Pfeiffer). – Breure, 1975: 1150, pl. 8 fig. 2 (partim).

Drymaeus poecilus. – Breure, 1975: 1152 (partim).

Type locality: “provincia Chiquitensi (republica Boliviana)”; see remarks.

Label: “Chiquitos”, in Moricand’s handwriting.

Dimensions: “Longit 22 1/2 mil.; latit. a 15 ad 16 millim.”; figured specimen herein H 26.8, D 13.0, W 6.0.

Type material: MHNG-INVE-63506, five paralectotypes (ex d’Orbigny, Moricand coll.).

Remarks: In d’Orbigny (1837 [1834-1847]) the type locality is specified for two varieties, var. major and var. minor. Var. major was found especially at “la porte de Tasajos et du bourg de Pampa grande”. Var. minor occurs in the forests bordering the “ Rio grande ”, the forests bordering “Rio de Tacabaca, entre San-Juan et Santo-Corazon de Chiquitos et aux environs de cette première Mission [San Juan]”. See also Breure (1973). The lot in MHNG belongs to the latter mentioned. All material belongs to the same species, contrasting the findings of Breure (1975) for the material in the MNHN; additional specimens are in the NHMUK (Breure & Ablett, 2014).

Current systematic position: Bulimulidae, Drymaeus (Drymaeus) poecilus (d’Orbigny, 1835).

Notes

Published as part of Breure, Abraham S. H., 2016, Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva, pp. 57-103 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.46290

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MHNG
Material sample ID
MHNG-INVE-63506
Scientific name authorship
d'Orbigny
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Helicidae
Genus
Helix
Species
poecila
Taxon rank
species
Type status
paralectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Helix poecila d'Orbigny, 1835 sec. Breure, 2016

References

  • Orbigny A. d' 1835. Synopsis terrestrium et fluviatilium molluscorum, in suo per Americam meriodionalem itinere. Magasin de Zoologie 5 (61): 1 - 44.
  • Breure A. S. H. & Ablett J. D. 2014. Annotated type catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys 392: 1 - 367.
  • Gray J. E. 1854. List of the shells of South America in the collection of the British Museum; collected and described by M. Alcide d'Orbigny in the " Voyage dans l'Amerique Meridionale ". Trustees of the British Museum, London, 89 pp.
  • Breure A. S. H. 1975. Types of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle Paris (3) 31, Zoologie 233: 1137 - 1187.
  • Breure A. S. H. 1973. Index to the neotropical land Mollusca described by Alcide d'Orbigny, with notes on the localities of the mainland species. Basteria 37: 113 - 135.