Buliminus corpulentior E. Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst 2006
Creators: name: Ruud, A. Bank
name: Menkhorst, Henk P. M. G
name: Neubert, Eike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Enidae
Buliminus
Buliminus corpulentior

description: <i>Buliminus corpulentior</i> E. Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst, 2006 (Fig. 4) <i>Buliminus</i> (<i>Buliminus</i>) <i>corpulentus</i> E. Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst, 1991: 79 -82, figs 4, 10 (shell), 24 (genitals), 29 (distribution). Type locality: Turkey, "Içel: 3 km W. of Aydincik (= Gilindire), 0-50 m alt., WE 29". Primary homonym of <i>Buliminus cantori</i> var. <i>corpulenta</i> Gredler, 1884. Holotype in RMNH MOLL 56517. <i>Buliminus</i> (<i>Buliminus</i>) <i>labrosus labrosus</i> – Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst, 1991: 83 (without original reference), figs 11 (shell), 29 (distribution). <i>Buliminus</i> (<i>Buliminus</i>) <i>corpulentior</i> E. Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst, 2006: 101. New name (nomen novum) for <i>Buliminus</i> (<i>Buliminus</i>) <i>corpulentus</i> E. Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst, 1991. Description. – Shell big to very big, slender ovoid to cylindrical-conic in outline, with an open, slit-like umbilicus. The 6.1-7.0 whorls are moderately convex, and separated by a moderately deep suture. Teleoconch with irregular, fine, oblique striae. At the upper part of the teleoconch and close to the curved peristome there is some very fine granulation; the lower part of the teleoconch shows delicate, irregular, fine spiral striae. Shell solid, not translucent, glossy, bluish-white to light horn-brown; there is a thin whitish band behind the peristome. Aperture more or less ovoid, peristome thickened and strongly re- flected, the columellar and palatal insertion con- nected by rather well developed callus which is more thickened near the columellar peristome as well as the palatal peristome. The thickened callus at the palatal peristome forms a small subangularis that often fuses with the insertion of palatal peristome. The reflected peristome is thin; it mostly curls around itself (i.e. it is curved backwards). The clearly visible columellar ledge reaches halfway to below the middle of the columellar side of the aperture. Measurements (n = 20). – H 26.6-43.1 mm; LWD 13.3-21.7 mm. Localities. – Vilayet Mersin: Ayd&amp;imath;nc&amp;imath;k, 3 km towards Gözsüzce (36.1345°N 33.2938°E) (Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst, 1991: 79 – sub <i>corpulentus</i>); Sipanhili, 2 km towards Büyükeçeli (36.1579°N 33.4803°E) (Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst, 1991: 79 – sub <i>corpulentus</i>); Yenika&amp;scedil; (36.1328°N 32.2856°E) (SMNS/4); Sipanhili, 7 km towards Ayd&amp;imath;nc&amp;imath;k (36.1682°N 33.4803°E) (SMNS/1). Vilayet Gaziantep: 17 km E. Sakçagöz (37.17464°N 37.0990°E) (Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst, 1991: 83 – sub <i>labrosus</i>); 20 km E. Sakçagöz (37.1781°N 37.1262°E) (Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst, 1991: 83 – sub <i>labrosus</i>); 1.5 km E. Ye&amp;scedil;ilce (37.1732°N 37.2233°E) (Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst, 1991: 83 – sub <i>labrosus</i>). Vilayet Hatay: 6 km NE. Samanda&amp;gbreve;&amp;imath; (36.1268°N 36.0364°E) (Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst, 1991: 83 – sub <i>labrosus</i>); Harbiye, 1 km towards Yaylada&amp;gbreve;&amp;imath; (36.1278°N 36.1546°E) (SMNS/6); Tekeba&amp;scedil;&amp;imath;, 2 km towards Meydan (36.0399°N 35.9847°E) (SMNS/6). Differentiation. – <i>Buliminus labrosus</i> differs clearly from <i>B. corpulentior</i> by its dense (but delicate) granulation over its entire teleoconch; spiral striae are missing. <i>B. jordani</i> has the same microsculpture as <i>B. corpulentior</i>, but the whorls are more flattened and the last whorl is more stout. <i>B. zarudnyi</i> lacks spiral striae, lacks granulation and has a less prominent parietal callus. Remarks. – The shells from the surroundings of Ayd&amp;imath;nc&amp;imath;k are exceptionally large and geographically rather isolated; however, some shells from Harbiye reach essentially the same size as those of Ayd&amp;imath;nc&amp;imath;k. Other populations are markedly smaller than those of Ayd&amp;imath;nc&amp;imath;k, but because there are further no differences in shell morphology or microsculpture, we consider the Turkish populations mentioned as <i>B. labrosus labrosus</i> by Gittenberger &amp; Menkhorst (1991) as belonging to <i>B. corpulentior</i>. The shell depicted by Schütt (2010: 113 fig. a – sub <i>B. labrosus labrosus</i>), which comes from Harbiye, belongs to <i>B. corpulentior</i>. The same might be the case with the shell figured by &amp;Scedil;e&amp;scedil;en &amp; Schütt (2002: 83 fig. 9 – sub <i>B. labrosus</i>) from Kastabala, but we cannot exclude an identity with <i>B. alepensis</i> without having seen the shell. Schütt (2010: 111) wrongly mentioned 1991 as the publication date of <i>corpulentior</i>: this is the publication date of the preoccupied name <i>corpulentus</i>. The closest relative of <i>B. corpulentior</i>, both from a geographical and shell morphological point of view, seems to be <i>B. jordani</i>. This species is common in the northwestern part of Jordan (Neubert, Amr, Waitzbauer &amp; Al Talafha, 2015) and the northernmost part of Israel (Heller, 2009: 294); it is not known whether <i>B. jordani</i> is also distributed in Lebanon and Syria.
description: Published as part of <i>Ruud, A. Bank, Henk P. M. G Menkhorst &amp; Eike Neubert, 2016, Descriptions of new and little-known land snail taxa from Turkey, and establishment of a new genus (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Lauriidae, Enidae and Vitrinidae), pp. 5-30 in Basteria 80 (1)</i> on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.439745
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