Bulimus onslowi
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Familia: Bothriembryontidae
Genus: Bulimus
Name
Bulimus onslowi Cox, 1864 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Bulimus onslowi Cox 1864[1]: 185; Kendrick and Wilson 1975[2]: 308, pl. 5 figs 1a–b; B.J. Smith 1992[3]: 106.
Type locality
“Dirk Hartog’s Island, Shark Bay, Western Australia”.
Label
See Remarks.
Dimensions
“Long. 0.85, diam. 0.60 unc. [H 21.6, D 15.2 mm]”; figured specimen H 21.7, D 13.9, W 4.6.
Type material
AM C84882, syntype.
Remarks
Kendrick and Wilson (1975)[2] have discussed the type specimen, clarifying that the original label has been lost and that “the dimensions differ slightly from those given by Cox”.
Current systematic position
Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon onslowi (Cox, 1864).
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
- ↑ Cox J (1864) Descriptions of twenty-six new species of Australian land-shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 14: 185.
- ↑ 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.
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