Cowie Robert H
Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii, 3050 Maile Way, Gilmore 408, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 Mar 27;3940:1-92. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1.
Ampullariidae are freshwater snails predominantly distributed in humid tropical and sub-tropical habitats in Africa, South and Central America and Asia. This catalogue is concerned only with the non-fossil Old World species, the majority of which are placed in the genera Pila and Lanistes, with a few species in Afropomus, Forbesopomus and Saulea. Pila occurs in Africa and Asia, Lanistes, Afropomus and Saulea only in Africa and Forbesopomus only in Asia. New World taxa were catalogued in a previous publication. The taxonomy of the group is heavily based on shell morphology but the true number of valid taxa remains unknown, pending revisionary work. This catalogue provides the rigorous nomenclatural base for this future work by bringing together all the available and unavailable genus-group and species-group names that have been applied to Recent Asian and African ampullariids, indicating their current nomenclatural status (species, subspecies, synonyms, etc.). Fossil taxa are not included. The catalogue lists 21 published genus-group and 244 published species-group names of Old World ampullariids, excluding 25 names that are incertae sedis and cannot be definitively determined as Old or New World. Of these 265 Old World names, five genus-group and 104 species-group (including 30 infraspecific) names are currently valid. There are 16 genus-group synonyms, 118 species-group synonyms and four species-group homonyms that are not treated as junior synonyms. Also listed are five unavailable family-group, one unavailable genus-group and 18 unavailable species-group names, and a number of unpublished names from museum labels. The catalogue provides bibliographic details for all published names, locations of type material, details of type localities and geographic distributions as far as can be ascertained given the confused state of the taxonomy. The catalogue is a work of nomenclature; it is not a revisionary work of taxonomy. Additional details and corrections to the earlier catalogue of the apple snails of the Americas are provided. No new names are proposed. Seven apparently new combinations are introduced, all with the genus Pila Preston: complicata Reeve, dira Reeve, major Germain (described as a variety of ovata Olivier), major Germain (described as a variety of speciosa Philippi), obvia Mabille, pallens Philippi, turbinoides Reeve.
瓶螺科是淡水螺类，主要分布于非洲、南美洲和中美洲以及亚洲的湿润热带和亚热带栖息地。本目录仅涉及非化石的东半球物种，其中大多数归入瓶螺属（Pila）和兰氏螺属（Lanistes），少数物种归入非洲瓶螺属（Afropomus）、福布斯瓶螺属（Forbesopomus）和索氏螺属（Saulea）。瓶螺属分布于非洲和亚洲，兰氏螺属、非洲瓶螺属和索氏螺属仅分布于非洲，福布斯瓶螺属仅分布于亚洲。西半球的分类单元已在先前的出版物中编目。该类群的分类学主要基于壳的形态，但在进行修订工作之前，有效分类单元的实际数量仍不清楚。本目录通过汇集所有已应用于现生亚洲和非洲瓶螺类的可用和不可用的属级和种级名称，表明它们当前的命名状态（物种、亚种、同义词等），为未来的这项工作提供了严格的命名基础。化石分类单元不包括在内。该目录列出了东半球瓶螺科21个已发表的属级名称和244个已发表的种级名称，不包括25个地位不确定且无法明确确定是东半球还是西半球的名称。在这265个东半球名称中，5个属级名称和104个种级名称（包括30个种下名称）目前有效。有16个属级同义词、118个种级同义词和4个种级同名异物，这些未被视为次同物异名。还列出了5个不可用的科级名称、1个不可用的属级名称和18个不可用的种级名称，以及一些来自博物馆标签的未发表名称。该目录提供了所有已发表名称的文献细节、模式标本的存放地点、模式产地的详细信息以及在分类学混乱状态下尽可能确定的地理分布。该目录是一项命名学工作；它不是分类学的修订工作。提供了对早期美洲苹果螺目录的更多细节和更正。未提出新名称。引入了7个明显的新组合，均以普雷斯顿瓶螺属（Pila Preston）命名：complicata Reeve、dira Reeve、major Germain（最初描述为ovata Olivier的变种）、major Germain（最初描述为speciosa Philippi的变种）、obvia Mabille、pallens Philippi、turbinoides Reeve。
