ZooKeys 392: Annotated Type Catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London

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Language: English

The family Bulimulidae is a dominant land snail family in the Neotropics, with more than 1 000 nominal taxa described. Revisionary work has only partially been done, but many genera need further revisionary work for which a sound taxonomic basis is needed. Type specimens for more than 400 taxa of this family are present in the Natural History Museum, London, U.K., and are documented in this paper. For each taxon the relevant literature is cited, type locality, label, the provenance of the specimens, and the current systematic position; photographs of nearly all type specimens and labels are also provided.

Contents

Introduction and methods   2
Systematics   3
Systematic list of taxa arranged in generic order   3
Family Bulimulidae Tryon, 1867   3
Alphabetic list of taxa by species name   7
Non-Bulimulidae   214
Plates   215
Acknowledgements   357
References   357

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