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Liguus fasciatus subsp. viridis Clench 1934

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

Liguus fasciatus viridis Clench, 1934

Fig. 133

Liguus fasciatus viridis Clench, 1934: 105, pl. 6 fig. 11. – Johnson, 2003: 25.

Type locality: “La Caoba, near Dolores, Central Soledad, Cienfuegos, Santa Clara, Cuba ”.

Label: “ 2 miles E of Dolores / Soledad, Cienfuegos / Cuba ”.

Dimensions: “Length 48.0 / Width 23.0 (…) mm.”; figured specimen herein H 55.8, D 26.7, W 7+.

Type material: MHNG-INVE-64933, one paratype (ex Fairchild, ex MCZ).

Remarks: Clench presented dimensions of the holotype and five paratypes (in the MCZ collection), but did not mention how many specimens were in the type series. However, besides the type locality, he mentioned eight localities under paratypes, “[a]ll (…) localities in the vicinity of Central Soledad”.

Current systematic position: Orthalicidae, Liguus fasciatus (Müller, 1774).

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 86, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.46290

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MCZ
Scientific name authorship
Clench
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Orthalicidae
Genus
Liguus
Species
viridis
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Liguus fasciatus subsp. viridis Clench, 1934 sec. Breure, 2016

References

  • Clench W. J. 1934. New mollusks in the genus Liguus from Cuba and the Isles of Pines. West Indian mollusks, 8. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 8: 101 - 124.
  • Johnson R. I. 2003. Molluscan taxa and bibliographies of William James Clench and Ruth Dixon Turner. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 158: 1 - 46.