Bothriembryon inflatus castaneus
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Familia: Bothriembryontidae
Genus: Bothriembryon
Name
Bothriembryon inflatus Pilsbry, 1900 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Bothriembryon inflatus castaneus ‘Deshayes’ Pilsbry 1900[1]: 5, pl. 1 fig. 18 [not fig. 11]; Kendrick and Wilson 1975[2]: 315, pl. 1 figs 3a–3b; B.J. Smith 1992[3]: 105.
- Bothriembryon castaneus Pilsbry; Iredale 1939[4]: 19, pl. 2 fig. 2.
Type locality
[Western Australia] “Recherche Archipelago (Dr. Cox)”. See Remarks.
Label
“Reserch [sic] / Archipelago / W. Australia”.
Dimensions
“Alt. 22, diam. 13 (...) mill.”; figured specimen H 23.1, D 13.8, W 5.1.
Type material
AM C87458, syntype (Cox coll.).
Remarks
Kendrick and Wilson (1975)[2], in their valuable study on type specimens of Bothriembryon, have argued why the type locality as given by Pilsbry is unlikely; they presume that the specimen originated from Doubtful Island in the Bremer Bay area. It should be noted that this locality is ca. 170 km east from Albany, Bald Head, which is the type locality of Helix melo Quoy and Gaimard, 1832, and of their variety Helix melo castanea (see next section). Should material from these two localities prove to be sufficiently distinct for systematic separation, it is worth noting that the name castaneus Pilsbry, 1900 is a homonym of castanea Quoy and Gaimard, 1832. The material is accompanied by a label “selected as type / by Iredale 1939[4] / p. 19”, but this is not regarded as a valid lectotype designation by Iredale.
Current systematic position
Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon melo (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832).
Taxon Treatment
- Breure, A; Whisson, C; 2012: Annotated type catalogue of Bothriembryon (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in Australian museums, with a compilation of types in other museums ZooKeys, 194: 41-80. doi
Other References
- ↑ Pilsbry H (1900) Australasian Bulimulidae: Bothriembryon, Placostylus. Helicidae: Amphidromus. Manual of Conchology (2) 13: 1–253.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kendrick G, Wilson B (1975) Nomenclatural notes on the land snail genus Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894 (Pulmonata: Bulimulidae), with redescriptions of the types and two other species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 3: 295-325.
- ↑ Smith B (1992) Non-marine Mollusca. In: Houston WWK (Ed) Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 8. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, xii + 405 pp.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Iredale T (1939) A review of the land Mollusca of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery 2(1): 1–88. [Published 1.viii.1939; same text re-published 21.viii.1939 in Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 25:1–88 (read before the Society on 13.ix.1938, but publication delayed)].
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