Helix (Succinea) rufovirens S. Moricand 1846
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 (Succinea) rufovirens S. Moricand, 1846
Figs 12-14
Helix (Succinea) rufovirens S. Moricand, 1846: 147, pl. 5 fig. 4. – Breure, 1979: 134. – Neubert & Janssen, 2004: 227, pl. 17 fig. 209.
Type locality: [Brazil] “le Brésil, dans la province de Bahia ”.
Label: “ Bahia ”, in Moricand’s handwriting.Dimensions: Not given. Figured specimen H 11.8, D 14.2, W 3.3.
Type material: MHNG-INVE-64632, 50+ syntypes; 78493, 13 syntypes (ex Blanchet, Moricand coll.).
Remarks: Moricand did not state on how many specimens his description was based. Although he did not provide precise dimensions, he stated in the comparison with other species (S. Moricand, 1846: 148) “ S. rufovirens (…) à quatre tours et par sa hauteur égale à sa largeur”. The type material covers the whole range from juvenile to adult. The current systematic position follows Simone (2006).
Current systematic position: Simpulopsidae, Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) rufovirens (S. Moricand, 1846).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MHNG
- Family
- Helicidae
- Genus
- Helix
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- MHNG-INVE-64632 , MHNG-INVE-78493
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- S. Moricand
- Species
- rufovirens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Helix (Succinea) rufovirens Moricand, 1846 sec. Breure, 2016
References
- Moricand S. 1846. Troisieme supplement au memoire sur les coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles de la province de Bahia, envoyees par M. Blanchet. Memoires de la Societe de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Geneve 11 (1): 147 - 160.
- Breure A. S. H. 1979. Systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of Bulimulinae (Mollusca). Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 168: 1 - 215.
- Neubert E. & Janssen R. 2004. Die Typen und Typoide des Natur-Museums Senckenberg, 84: Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae (2), Orthalicidae, Placostylidae. Archiv fur Molluskenkunde 133: 193 - 297.
- Simone L. R. L. 2006. Land and freshwater molluscs of Brazil. EGB / Fapesp, Sao Paulo, 390 pp.