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)

Author(s): Petra Lukeneder, Franz Ottner, Mathias Harzhauser, Viola Winkler, Brian Metscher, Bernhard Ruthensteiner, Adrienne Jochum
Abstract: 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(s): Department of Palaeontology, Department of Geology, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Geography and Regional Research
External organisation(s): University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHM), Staatl Nat Wissensch Sammlungen Bayerns, Zool Staatssammlung Munchen, Natural History Museum Bern, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Journal: Subterranean Biology
Volume: 49
Pages: 97-116
No. of pages: 20
ISSN: 1768-1448
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/SUBTBIOL.49.130692
Publication date: 2024
Peer reviewed: Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012: 106043 Systematic zoology
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ASJC Scopus subject areas: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science
Portal url: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/d5c86c16-8654-4fa2-821b-5808f9c557e1

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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)