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Bulimus virginalis Morelet 1860

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

Bulimus virginalis Morelet, 1860

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Bulimus virginalis Morelet, 1860: 372.

Type locality: [Peru] “[intimâ Peruvii regione]”; see remarks.

Label: “ Tacna ”.

Dimensions: “Longit. 28; diam. 14 mill.”. Figured specimen H 27.3, D 15.5, W 5+.

Type material: MHNG-INVE-60272, holotype (Angrand coll.).

Remarks: Morelet (1860) did not mention on how many specimens his description was based. This taxon has been synonymized with Bostryx hennahi (J.E. Gray, 1828) by Morelet (1863), who stated “[u]n seul individu de cette espèce a été rencontré sur la côte sablonneuse de Tacna ”. The specimen found is thus the holotype. It should be noted that this material is from the same locality as Helix cactorum d’Orbigny, 1835; see remarks under that taxon.

Current systematic position: Bulimulidae, Bostryx hennahi (J.E. Gray, 1828)?

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 85, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.46290

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MHNG
Material sample ID
MHNG-INVE-60272
Scientific name authorship
Morelet
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Bulimulidae
Genus
Bulimus
Species
virginalis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Bulimus virginalis Morelet, 1860 sec. Breure, 2016

References

  • Morelet A. 1860. Colimacea in intima Peruvii regione a Cl. Angrand collecta. Journal de Conchyliologie 8: 371 - 376.
  • Morelet A. 1863. Series conchyliologiques, comprenant l'enumeration de mollusques, terrestres et fluviatiles recueillis pendant le cours de differents voyages, ainsi que la description de plusieurs especes nouvelles, III. Perou: 131 - 221. Klincksieck, Paris.