Succinea elegans
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Ordo: Pulmonata
Familia: Orthalicoidea
Genus: Succinea
Name
Succinea elegans Pfeiffer, 1842 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Succinea elegans Pfeiffer 1842[1]: 56; Pfeiffer 1843[2]: 187; Pfeiffer 1855, in Küster and Pfeiffer 1840–1865[3]: pl. 60 fig. 7. Not Succinea elegans Risso, 1826.
- Plectostylus coquimbensis perelegans (Pilsbry); Breure 1978[4]: 201, pl. 9 fig. 14 (lectotype designation).
Type locality
“Huasco, Chile (Bridges)”.
Label
“Questa de Arenas / Huasco, Chili”, taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style IV.
Dimensions
“Long. 36, diam. 17 mill.”; lectotype H 30.0, D 16.2, W 5.1.
Type material
NHMUK 1975360, lectotype; 1975361, three paralectotypes (Cuming coll.).
Remarks
The lectotype corresponds to the specimen figured by Pfeiffer (1855 [1840–1865]). The original shell height may have been in error. This taxon is now considered a junior subjective synonym of Bulinus broderipii Sowerby I, 1832 (F. Cádiz, unpublished data).
Current systematic position
Bothriembryontidae, Plectostylus broderipii (Sowerby I, 1832) (synon. n.).
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
- ↑ Pfeiffer L (1842) Symbolae ad historiam heliceorum, II. Helicea collectionis Pfeifferianae. Th. Fischeri, Casselis, 147 pp.
- ↑ Pfeiffer L (1843) Some new species of Helicidae, collected by Mr. Bridges in the northern parts of Chile. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1842): 186–188.
- ↑ Küster H, Pfeiffer L (1840–1855 [1840–1865]) Die Gattungen Bulimus, Partula, Achatinella, Achatina und Azeca. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz, I, 13 (1): i–xix, 1–395.
- ↑ Breure A (1978) Notes on and descriptions of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 164: 1-255.
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