Helkix buchi was described by Du Bois de Montpereux in:
Louis Pfeiffer
Monographia Heliceorum viventium sistens Descriptiones
systematicas et criticas omnium huis familiae generum et
specierum hodie cognitarum, Lipsiae F.A. Brockhous,
vol. 3 pag. 181
All the best
Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli
>Dear Charles,
>
>Likhachev and Rammel'meier (1952) attribute Helix buchi to Louis
>Pfeiffer, 1853 [as Helix] and consider it separate from H. lucorum
>Linnaeus, 1758. There is no direct comparison of the two in the
>text, but the illustrations indicate significant similarity. These
>figures indicate H. buchi as having a more deflected, smaller, more
>oblique aperture.
>
>The differences in the descriptions are as follows:
>protoconch smooth in H. lucorum; finely granular in H. buchi.
>ground color yellow in H. l.; white in H. b.
>major diameter 41 to 49 mm, height 40 to 47 mm for H. l; 47 to 52 mm
>and 46 to 50 mm respectively for H. b.
>flagellum "many times longer than the penis" (about four times in
>fig.) in H. l; "1 1/2 to 2 times..." in H. b. (genitalia not figured)
>
>Let me know if you could use some scans.
>
>Harry
>
>Likhachev, I. M. and E. S. Rammel'meier, 1952. Terrestrial mollusks
>of the fauna of the U.S.S.R. (Keys to the fauna of the U.S,S.R. -
>No. 43). Izdatel'stvo Academii Nauk SSSR , Moscow and Leningrad. iv
>(?; unpaginated) + pp. 1-511. (Translated from Russian and published
>for the National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C. by the Israel
>Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 1962. iv + pp.
>1-574.).
>
>
>At 04:36 AM 2/16/2007, you wrote:
>
>>Good morning all,
>>I am trying to check or find reliable update article on validity of taxon
>>Helix bushi Du Bois de Montpereux(date 1837 ?). Snails coming with this
>>labelling usually come from Russia.
>>Googling does not yield much result pages except for a few pages in Russian
>>(musea pages) Author's name does not yield much either except for Du Bois
>>von Montpereux on an antiquarian book seller's list.
>>The point of this post is to try to find out in how far Helix bushi might
>>be related to lucorum. If two taxons are valid as species, what are the
>>criteria for ID 2 species.
>>Tks much in advance for any additional info.
>>WKR
>>Charles Geerts
>>
>
>Harry G. Lee, M. D.
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