Lost & Found - Rediscovery of H. Hauffen’s Carychium material in the Dominik Bilimek Collection, BOKU University, including a contemporary assessment within the genus Zospeum (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiinae)

Autor(en): Petra Lukeneder, Franz Ottner, Mathias Harzhauser, Viola Winkler, Brian Metscher, Bernhard Ruthensteiner, Adrienne Jochum
Abstrakt: The syntypes of Carychium reticulatum Hauffen, 1856 and Carychium bidentatum Hauffen, 1856, thought to be lost to science, have been rediscovered in a recent inventory of the shell collection of Domink Bilimek (1813–1884) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria (BOKU). In this work, we present (1) the historical context of the Dominik Bilimek and Heinrich (also: Henrik) Hauffen collections and (2) provide a contemporary image dataset of Hauffen’s original material while considering today’s taxonomic understanding of the genus Zospeum. We clarify the taxonomic status of the syntypes by using light microscopy, Scanning Electron Microcopy (SEM) and 3D X-ray Micro-CT data in conjunction with Hauffen’s original illustrations and compare them to contemporary investigations of their closest congeners. Analysis of Zospeum reticulatum (Hauffen, 1856) is supported by historical documentation from Heinrich Hauffen’s original annotations and Bilimek’s diary entries, as well as from individual collection labels in Hauffen’s own script (verified by archive material from the Archive of the National Museum of Slovenia, NMS). Hauffen’s descriptions are based on apertural morphology and shell microstructure. Our re-investigation of Zospeum reticulatum provides corroborating evidence supporting its assignment to Zospeum spelaeum (Rossmaessler, 1839) while that of Carychium bidentatum corroborates its status as junior synonym of Zospeum costatum (Freyer, 1855).
Organisation(en): Institut für Paläontologie, Institut für Geologie, Department für Evolutionsbiologie, Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Externe Organisation(en): Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHM), Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Naturhistorisches Museum der Bürgergemeinde Bern, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
Journal: Subterranean Biology
Band: 49
Seiten: 97-116
Anzahl der Seiten: 20
ISSN: 1768-1448
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/SUBTBIOL.49.130692
Publikationsdatum: 2024
Peer-reviewed: Ja
ÖFOS 2012: 106043 Systematische Zoologie
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ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science
Link zum Portal: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/d5c86c16-8654-4fa2-821b-5808f9c557e1

Lost &amp; Found - Rediscovery of H. Hauffen’s Carychium material in the Dominik Bilimek Collection, BOKU University, including a contemporary assessment within the genus Zospeum (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiinae)

Lost & Found - Rediscovery of H. Hauffen’s Carychium material in the Dominik Bilimek Collection, BOKU University, including a contemporary assessment within the genus Zospeum (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiinae)