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Helix abyssorum 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 abyssorum d’Orbigny, 1835

Fig. 45

Helix abyssorum d’Orbigny, 1835: 17. – Breure & Ablett, 2014: 9, figs 27A-C, L1iii.

Bulimus abyssorum – d’Orbigny, 1837 [1834-1847]: 308, pl. 39 figs 7-8. – Gray, 1854: 21.

Drymaeus abyssorum – Pilsbry, 1898 [1897-1898]: 192, pl. 37 figs 3-4. – Breure, 1975: 1149, pl. 7 fig. 2 (lectotype designation).

Drymaeus (Drymaeus) hygrohylaeus Miquel, 1989b: 77, fig. 1.

Type locality: [Bolivia] “provincia Lagunacensi (republica Boliviana)”; see Breure, 1973: 113.

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

Dimensions: “Longit. 52 mil., latit. 25 millim.”; figured specimen herein H 46.9 D 24.6, W5.9.

Type material: MHNG-INVE-63420, one paralectotype (ex d’Orbigny, Moricand coll.).

Remarks: d’Orbigny did not state on how many specimens his description was based. The type series appears to have been split between the MNHN and NHMUK collections (Breure, 1975 b; Breure & Ablett, 2014), while one specimen was sent to S. Moricand (likely at an earlier stage before the final split was made). The lectotype is in the MNHN. None of the specimens in London match the original figures, while one of the specimens in Paris is close to the published dimensions. The current systematic position follows Breure & Ablett (2014).

Current systematic position: Bulimulidae, Drymaeus (Drymaeus) abyssorum (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 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.46290

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Biodiversity

Collection code
MHNG
Material sample ID
MHNG-INVE-63420
Scientific name authorship
d'Orbigny
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Helicidae
Genus
Helix
Species
abyssorum
Taxon rank
species
Type status
paralectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Helix abyssorum 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.
  • Miquel S. E. 1989 b. El genero Drymaeus Albers, 1850 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Bulimulidae) en la Republica Argentina. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 24: 75 - 86.
  • 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.