Achatina magnifica
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Ordo: Stylommatophora
Familia: Achatinidae
Genus: Achatina
Name
Achatina magnifica Pfeiffer, 1848 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Achatina magnifica Pfeiffer 1848a[1]: 232; Pfeiffer 1848b[2]: 255.
- Liguus (Hemibulimus) magnificus; E.A. Smith 1907[3]: 314, fig.
Type locality
“Quito, Ecuador; in woods (De Lattre)”.
Label
“Quito, Ecuador”, taxon label in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. M.C. label style IV.
Dimensions
“Long. 47, diam. 21 mill.”. Figured specimen H 46.6, D 23.0, W 5.5.
Type material
NHMUK 20100508, two syntypes (Cuming coll.).
Remarks
Pfeiffer did not state on how many specimens his description was based, but described this taxon from Cuming’s collection. Reeve’s figure (Reeve 1849 [1849–1850][4]: pl. 9 fig. 33) was from “the collection of J. Dennison, Esq., of which there is also a specimen in the possession of Mr. Cuming [i.e., Pfeiffer’s type]”. This taxon has been incorrectly classified with Hemibulimus Martens, 1885 by Pilsbry (1899[5]: 185)—who copied Reeve’s figure—and Richardson (1993[6]: 71); Pilsbry (1909 [1908–1910][7]: 117) corrected his mistake. The type material is here re-figured, after E.A. Smith (1907)[3] had figured it for the first time. Although the specimen seems to be slightly subadult, this taxon might be closely allied to Bulimus corydon Crosse, 1869, Bulimus phoebus Pfeiffer, 1863, and Bulimus victor Pfeiffer, 1854. Achatina magnifica is now tentatively placed in Clathrorthalicus Strebel, 1909; however, further anatomical and molecular studies should reveal the correct systematic position.
Current systematic position
Orthalicidae, Clathrorthalicus magnificus (Pfeiffer, 1848) (comb. n.).
Taxon Treatment
- Breure, A; Ablett, J; 2015: Annotated type catalogue of the Megaspiridae, Orthalicidae, and Simpulopsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London ZooKeys, (470): 17-143. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Pfeiffer L (1848a) Description of nineteen new species of land-shells, in the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1847): 229–232.
- ↑ Pfeiffer L (1848b) Monographia heliceorum viventium: sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium huius familiae generum et specierum hodie cognitarum, 2. Brockhaus, Lipsiae, 1–594.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Smith E (1907) Notes on Achatina dennisoni Reeve, and A. magnifica Pfeiffer. Proceedings of the malacological Society of London 7: 313–314.
- ↑ Reeve L (1848–1850) Conchologica iconica or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, 5. Bulimus. Reeve, Benham and Reeve, London, i–ix, 89 pls. + legend.
- ↑ Pilsbry H (1899) American Bulimulidae: North American and Antillean Drymaeus, Leiostracus, Orthalicinae and Amphibuliminae. Manual of Conchology (2) 12: 1–258.
- ↑ Richardson C (1993) Bulimulacea: catalog of species. Amphibulimidae, Anadromidae, Grangerellidae, Odontostomidae, Orthalicidae. Tryonia 27: 1–164.
- ↑ Pilsbry H (1908–1910) Caecilioides, Glessula, and Partulidae. Index to volumes 16–20. Manual of Conchology (2) 20: i–viii, 1–326.
