Meladomus bloyeti
Creators: name: Cowie, Robert H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Architaenioglossa
Ampullariidae
Meladomus
Meladomus bloyeti

description: bloyeti
Meladomus bloyeti Bourguignat, 1889: 171. Type material — lectotype (Cowie & Héros 2012: 797): MNHN 4501; paralectotype: MHNG-INVE-11674 (1 spm.). Type locality —“Cours d’eau aux environs de Kondoa (Ousaghara)” [Watercourses around Kondoa (Ousaghara), Tanzania]. Distribution —no additional information.
Remarks. Variety of purpurea Jonas, teste Martens (1897a: 164) and Kobelt (1909: 79). Synonym of olivacea G.B. Sowerby I, teste G.B. Sowerby III (1916: 68). Valid species, teste Kobelt (1911: 18), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 194) and Cowie & Héros (2012: 797), followed here.
+ boettgeri
Meladomus boettgeri Kobelt, 1912a: 7 –8 [1912b: 41, pl. 30, figs. 9, 10]. Type material — syntypes: SMF 7457 (1 spm.), SMF 7458 (1 spm.). Type locality —“ Gabun ” [Gabon]. Distribution —no additional information. Remarks. For discussion of dates of publication of Kobelt (1912a) and Kobelt (1912b) see assiniensis Kobelt and the reference list. Variety of libycus Morelet, teste Kobelt (1912b: 41), followed here.
bolteniana
Ampullaria bolteniana Deshayes & Milne Edwards, 1838: 537 [name made available by bibliographic reference to Chemnitz (1786: 89, pl. 109, figs. 921, 922) (Code, Art. 11.5)]. Type material — holotype [by monotypy]: the shell illustrated by Chemnitz, location unknown, from the Bolten collection [not found in ZIN (see also Martynov 2002) or ZMUC]. Type locality —[no locality given].
Remarks. See also Roth (1839: 26), who treated bolteniana “Chemnitz” as the valid name for carinata Olivier, by bibliographic reference to Olivier (1804a: 38 [4o edition], 1804c: pl. 31, fig. 1 [error]), Deshayes & Milne Edwards (1838: 537; as “Lamarck”) and the illustrations of Savigny (1817, pl. 2, figs. 31.1–5) combined with their explanations by Audouin (1826: 33). Also made available by Jay (1850: 281) and Adams & Adams (1854: 349, pl. 37, figs. 5, 5a, b). Valid species, teste Germain (1907b: 116). Synonym of carinata Olivier, teste Philippi (1851: 23), Bourguignat (1864: 81), Nevill (1885: 13), Kobelt (1911: 19), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 186) and Brown (1980: 49, 1994: 59). Some authors have used bolteni as the name of this taxon, though giving the author as “Chemnitz” (e.g. Mayer-Eymar 1900: 120, 1901: 23; Pallary 1909: 61). Such instances are here treated as incorrect subsequent spellings (and therefore unavailable) rather than emendations (Code, Art. 33.5).
bourguignati
Leroya bourguignati Grandidier, 1887: 192. Type material —location unknown [not found in MNHN (cf. Dance 1986: 213)]. Type locality —“bassin du Kyngani ou celui du Vouami” [in final paragraph of publication; Kingani (= Ruvu) or Wami river basins, Tanzania].
Remarks. Illustrated by Bourguignat (1888: pl. 6, fig. 2). Variety of farleri Craven, teste Kobelt (1909: 79; as “ farleyi ”). Valid species, teste Kobelt (1912b: 36). Synonym of farleri Craven, teste Germain (1916: 324–325) and Brown (1980: 54), followed here, though only tentatively synonymized by Brown (1994: 65).
bourguignoni
Lanistes Bourguignoni Putzeys, 1898 a: xxiii. Type material — syntypes: RBINS MT 2039 (1 spm.). Type locality —“Embouchure de la Luima” [mouth of the Luima]; “L’état indépendant du Congo ” [in publication title; = Democratic Republic of the Congo].
Remarks. Valid species, teste G.B. Sowerby III (1916: 66). Synonym of congicus Boettger, teste Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 188), Mandahl-Barth (1968: 31) and Brown (1980: 50), followed here. Type species of Leroya Grandidier, here treated as a synonym of Lanistes Montfort.
bulimoides
Meladomus bulimoïdes Swainson, 1840: 340. Type material —location unknown. Type locality —“ China?” [error].
Remarks. Synonym of olivacea G.B. Sowerby I, teste G.B. Sowerby III (1916: 68) and Connolly (1939: 556), and of purpurea Jonas, teste Kobelt (1911: 4) and Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 194–195), followed here. Type species of Meladomus Swainson, here treated as a synonym of Lanistes Montfort.
description: Published as part of Cowie, Robert H., 2015, The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda, pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 3940 (1) on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288204