Bulimus cuninculinsulae
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Ordo: Pulmonata
Familia: Orthalicoidea
Genus: Bulimus
Name
Bulimus cuninculinsulae Cox, 1872 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Bulimus cuninculinsulae Cox 1872b[1]: 19, 233, pl. 18 fig. 5; Breure and Schouten 1985[2]: 68 (lectotype designation).
Type locality
[Australia] “Rabbit Island, near Lord Howe’s Island, Pacific Ocean”.
Label
“Rabbit Is. / near Lord / Howe’s Is. / Pacific ocean”.
Dimensions
“Length 1.65, breadth 0.75 of an inch [H 41.9, D 19.1 mm]”; lectotype H 41.6, D 20.5, W 5.6.
Type material
NHMUK 1880.12.11.47-48, lectotype and one paralectotype (ex Cox).
Remarks
The specimen figured by Cox (1872) has been chosen by Breure and Schouten (1985) as the lectotype; the paralectotype matches the original measurements (H 41.9).
Current systematic position
Bothriembryontidae, Placostylus cuninculinsulae (Cox, 1872).
Taxon Treatment
- Breure, A; Ablett, J; 2012: Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London ZooKeys, 182: 1-70. doi
Other References
- ↑ Cox J (1872b) Descriptions of new land-shells from Australia and the South-Sea Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1872): 18–20.
- ↑ Breure A, Schouten J (1985) Notes on and descriptions of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda), III. Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 216: 1-98.
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