Bulimulus fraterculus (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Bulimulus fraterculus (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)

Tamanho médio: 30 mm

Habitat: vive em árvores e arbustos 

Ocorrência: Brasil [Pará (Rio Tocantins, Baião) (Simone, 2006)], Trinidad & Tobago, Guadaloupe

Localidade tipo: Guadalupe, West Indies (“La Guadeloupe” (Férussac))

Nome original: Bulimus fraterculus frateculus Potiez & Michaud, 1838

Sinônimos: Bulimulus (Bulimulus) diaphanus fraterculus (Potiez & Michaud, 1838); Bulimulus (Bulimulus) fraterculus (Potiez & Michaud, 1838); Bulimulus (Leptomerus) fraterculus (Potiez & Michaud, 1838); Bulimulus diaphanus fraterculus (Potiez & Michaud, 1838); Bulimulus houelmontensis Mazé, 1883 

Sinônimos:

(i) Bulimulus fraterculus diaphanus (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)

(ii) Bulimulus fraterculus fraterculus (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)

Fotos:

(1,2) Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris: LECTOTYPE de B. fraterculus fraterculus (Potiez & Michaud, 1838), MNHN-IM-2000-28050, Guadalupe, 13.2mm, Coll. Potiez & Michaud;

(3) Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris: LECTOTYPE de Bulimulus houelmontensis Mazé, 1883, MNHN-IM-2000-28055, Guadeloupe, “Vieux-Fort, Houelmont relief, summit of Mont Caraïbe (Bavay; E. Marie): altitude approximately 586 m”, Collection of the Journal of Conchology, Crosse Collection, formerly Sallé, 15.3mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: (como Bulimus fraterculus Potiez & Michaud, 1838) Potiez, V. L. V. & Michaud, A. L. G. (1838). Galerie des mollusques, ou catalogue méthodique, descriptif et raisonné des mollusques et coquilles du Muséum de Douai. Tome 1, pp. xxxvi + 560 + 4 (Relevé des genres manquants; Errata). Atlas, pp. 1-56, pls I-XXXVII [= 1-37]. Paris: Baillière. , disponível online em https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10934167
página(s): 141, pl. 13, figs. 7-8

Descrição original: (como Bulimus diaphanus L. Pfeiffer, 1855) Pfeiffer, L. (1855). Descriptions of sixteen new species of Helicea, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London. 22 (267) [“1854”]: 122–126. London [7 April]., disponível online em https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747518#page/422/mode/1up
página(s): 125

Mazé, H. (1883). Catalogue révisé des Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la Guadeloupe et de ses dépendances. Journal de Conchyliologie. 31(1): 5-54., disponível online em https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15857016
page(s): 19, pl. 1 fig. 6; note: name attributed by Mazé to Crosse

Férussac A.E.J.P.F. d’Audebard de , 1821 – Deuxième partie: Tableau particuliers des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, tableau de la famille des Limaçons et tableau de la famille des Auricules. In: Tableaux systématiques des animaux mollusques suivis d’un prodrome général pour tous les mollusques terrestres ou fluviatiles, vivants ou fossiles, p. 111 pp [quarto ed]

Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. Editora Gráfica Bernardi, FAPESP. São Paulo, 390 pp.
página(s): 118, Fig. 363

Breure, A. S. H. (1974). Caribbean land molluscs: Bulimulidae I. Bulimulus. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands: no. 145. 45(1): 1–80., disponível online em https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506178

Breure, A. S. H. (1976). Types of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. ser. 3, Zoologie, 233: 1137-1187. [“1975”; 27 February 1976]., disponível online em https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57656920
página(s): 1143

UMMZ Mollusk Data Group, LSA IT A (2026). University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Mollusks. Version 1.104. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/qyvohy accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-03-21. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/3358405306

MolluscaBase (2024): https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1515225