Vol. 15(2): 83–93 THE COLLECTION OF TERRESTRIAL SLUGS (GASTROPODA: PULMONATA) AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, WROC£AW UNIVERSITY (POLAND) ANDRZEJ WIKTOR1 &JOLANTA JURKOWSKA2 Museum of Natural History, Wroc³aw University, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Wroc³aw, Poland (e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]) ABSTRACT: The collection of terrestrial slugs of the Museum of Natural History, Wroc³aw University, comprises 69 descriptive types as well as material representing 172 species mainly from the Northern Hemisphere. KEY WORDS: Gastropoda, Pulmonata, terrestrial slugs, type material, Museum of Natural History, Wroc³aw, Po- land INTRODUCTION The Museum of Natural History was established in of the Bulgarian materials come from the collection 1814 along with the University of Wroc³aw then com- of the late Prof. Dr. habil. JAROS£AW URBAÑSKI, ing into existence. Its original name was Zoological Poznañ, and were offered as a gift by the family of this Museum, and precisely “Zoologisches Museum” as it researcher after his death. In the last half a century, was German. By the mid-20th century the Museum the Museum’s malacological section gained abundant had housed shells both of land and marine snails, but materials left by Master’s and doctor’s students, and slug specimens had been lacking. In 1962, with the also specimens collcted occasionally by the employees employment of ANDRZEJ WIKTOR, the Museum’s of this institution. Donations of colleagues, especially malacological collection got enriched with his private A. WIKTOR’s co-authors, as well as of private collectors collection of gastropods, including slugs, which had or museums that the author of the present paper been being built for 10 years then. These specimens identified slugs for, constitute an important part of are labelled as “The collection of Andrzej Wiktor”, the Polish collection. These gifts include a series of and their considerable part is composed of slugs from specimens from the territory of the former USSR the Polish territory. Since A. WIKTOR started to spe- which were presented by Prof. I. M. LIKHAREV from cialise in slugs (until recently named Gastropoda Sankt Petersburg. terrestria nuda), the collection of these invertebrates At present the whole collection of slugs is ordered has been incessantly expanding; the material was and nearly all specimens determined. There are, how- mostly collected personally by the senior author dur- ever, rather few specimens, mainly from Poland, with- ing his field research in Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, out identification labels, which could be used in fur- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia, Greece, ther research. Spain, the Caucasus, Turkey, the Canary Isl., The majority of the material is kept in jars, the Tadzhikistan, China, Tibet and Papua-New Guinea. specimens preserved in 70–75% ethyl alcohol. They Also other malacologists, particularly Prof. Dr. habil. are arranged according to families and genera, and ADOLF RIEDEL from Warsaw, contributed to the en- within them – alphabetically according to specific largement of the collection, acquiring slugs specially names. Types of all categories are excluded from this for this purpose in different parts of the globe. Some section of the collection and kept separately in an in- 84 Andrzej Wiktor & Jolanta Jurkowska dividual cabinet (along with the type specimens of sions, monographs and larger publications for which other animals). A list of types has already partly been the collection concerned constituted voucher mate- published (JADWIGA WIKTOR 1992). At present the rial. collection holds 66 types of slugs. The whole slug collection comprises 520 jars. The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS total number of specimens is only roughly estimated, and it is about 43,500. On behalf of the Museum of Natural History and The specification below provides detailed data on their own, the authors wish to express their sincere the locality only for the types. In the case of other ma- thanks to all people who have contributed to the en- terial, exclusively for better orientation, the country richment of the Wroc³aw slug collection, and whose or geographical region of origin of the particular names, as collectors, are to be found on the labels. samples are mentioned. The list of references includes only the papers that Wroc³aw, 30th December, 2006 are the sources of descriptions of new species, revi- LIST OF SLUGS AT THE COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, WROC£AW UNIVERSITY (STATE AT THE END OF 2006) Familia ONCHIDIIDAE Rafinesque, 1815 Meghimatium pictum (Stoliczka, 1873) Onchidiidae (unidentified species) Korea Bahrain, New Guinea Meghimatium rugosum (Chen et Gao, 1982) (juv.) Taiwan Familia VERONICELLIDAE Gray, 1840 ?Meghimatium striatum Hesselt, 1823 (juv.) Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1821) India Bahrain (including laboratory-bred specimens), Oahu (Hawaii) Pallifera hemphilli (Binney, 1885) U.S.A. Phylocaulis sp. Peru Philomycus carolinianus (Bose, 1802) U.S.A. Veronicella sp. China Philomycidae (unidentified species) Mexico Veronicellus sp. Fiji-Lau Island Familia ARIOPHANTIDAE Godwin-Austen, 1888 (= PARMARIONIDAE Godwin-Austen, Familia RATHOUSIDAE Heude, 1885 1908) Atopus sp. Ariophantidae (unidentified species) Papua-New Guinea, Thailand India Familia RYTHIDIDAE Pilsbry, 1893 Familia ARIONIDAE Gray, 1840 Schizoglossa sp. Arion alpinus Pollonera, 1887 (Unidentified) Italy, Slovenia Familia ATHORACOPHORIDAE P. Fischer, Arion anguloi Martin et Gomez, 1988 1883 Paratypes! No. MP 609 Berantevilla, Spain Athoracophorus bitentaculus (Quoy et Gaimard, 1832) New Zealand Arion anthracius Bourguignat, 1866 Spain Athoracophorus sp. New Zealand Arion ater (Linnaeus, 1758) Spain Familia PHILOMYCIDAE Gray, 1847 Arion baeticus Garrido, Castillejo et Iglesias, 1994 Meghimatium bilineatum (Benson, 1842) Paratypes! No. MP 639 Russia, Korea, India, Taiwan, China Puerto del Madrono, Spain The collection of terrestrial slugs at the Museum of Natural History, Wroc³aw University 85 Arion circumscriptus Johnston, 1892 Arion subfuscus (Draparnaud, 1805) Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Russia, Bulgaria, Neotype! Lectotype! No. MP 649 (design. Garrido, Germany, South Africa Castillejo et Iglasias, 1995) Montagne Noir, France Arion distinctus Mabille, 1868 Other material: Poland, Latvia, Greece, Slovenia, Poland, Latvia, England, Bulgaria, Hungary, New Macedonia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Zealand, Croatia, Serbia Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Spain Arion fagophilus De Winter, 1986 Arion urbiae De Winter, 1986 Spain Paratypes! No. MP 590 Arion fasciatus (Nilsson, 1823) Urbia, Sierra de Aitzgorri, Spain Poland, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Germany ?Arion vejdovskyi Babor et Kostal, 1894 Arion hessei (Simroth, 1894) Germany Spain Arion wiktori Parejo et Martin, 1990 Arion hispanicus Simroth, 1889 Paratypes! No. MP 622 Topotypes! Valvanera, Spain Portugal Geomalacus anguiformis (Morelet, 1845) Arion hortensis Ferussac, 1819 Spain The Netherlands, England, New Zealand Geomalacus maculosus Allmann, 1843 Arion intermedius (Normand, 1852) (= minimus) Spain Poland, Germany, New Zealand Geomalacus malagensis Wiktor et Norris, 1991 Arion iratii Garrido, Castillejo et Iglesias, 1995 Holotype and paratypes! No. MP 613 Paratypes! No. MP 650 Colmenar, Prov. Malaga, Spain Selva de Irati, Spain Letourneuxia numidica Bourguignat, 1866 Arion isseli (Lessona et Pollonera,1882) Morocco Sardinia Arion lizarrustii Garrido, Castillejo et Iglesias, 1995 Familia OOPELTIDAE Cockerell, 1891 Paratypes! No. MP 651 Oopelta nigripunctata Mich, 1865 Alto de Lizarrustii, Novara, Spain South Africa Arion lusitanicus Mabille, 1848 Familia ANADENIDAE Pilsbry, 1948 Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, England, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal Anadenus altivagus (Theobald, 1862) Nepal, Pakistan Arion molinae Garrido, Castillejo, Iglesias, 1995 Paratypes! No. MP 652 Anadenus (Neoanadenus) gonggashensis Wiktor, Chen La Molina, Catalonia, Spain et Wu, 2000 Paratypes! No. MP 704 Arion molleri Pollonera, 1889 Sichuan Prov., China Spain Anadenus (Anadenus) nepalensis Wiktor, 2001 Arion ovenii Davies, 1979 Holotype and paratypes! No. MP 817 Great Britain, Ireland (Buncrana) Nepal Arion paularensis Wiktor et Parejo, 1989 Anadenus (Anadenus) yangtzeensis Wiktor, Chen et Holotype! No. MP 592 Wu, 2000 Catas al Paular, Sierra de Guadarama Mts., Spain Paratypes! No. MP 705 Arion rufus (Linnaeus, 1758) Sichuan and Yunnan Prov., China Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy Familia MILACIDAE Ellis, 1926 Arion silvaticus Lohmander, 1937 Poland, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Milax aegaeicus Wiktor et Mylonas, 1986 Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Herzegovina Holotype and paratypes! No. MP 573 Leukes, Amorgos Isl., Greece Other material: Greece Milax altenai Forcart, 1972 Greece, Turkey 86 Andrzej Wiktor & Jolanta Jurkowska Milax ater (Collinge, 1895) Tandonia fejervaryi (Wagner, 1929) Algeria Croatia Milax barypus Bourguignat, 1866 ? Tandonia kaleniczenkoi (Clessin, 1883) Israel Crimea Milax caucasicus obscurus (Simroth, 1912) Tandonia kusceri (Wagner, 1931) Azerbaijan (Talysh) Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia Milax gagates (Draparnaud, 1801) Tandonia macedonica (Rähle, 1974) Canary Islands, Spain, Corsica, Italy, Morocco, Macedonia Algeria, South Africa Tandonia melanica Wiktor, 1986 Milax monstruosus Wiktor, 1986 Holotype and paratypes! No. MP 569 Holotype! No. MP 571 S of Joanina, Therakison, Greece Latakia, Syria Tandonia pageti (Forcart, 1972) Milax nigricans (Schulz, 1836) (= insularis) Turkey Algeria, Spain, Majorca, Corsica, Canary