Liguus fasciatus solidus var. cingulatus Simpson 1920
Type locality: Brickell Hammock, Miami.
Holotype: FLMNH 241006.
Description: Liguus crenatus cingulatus Simpson 1920, PBSW, 33: p. 123.
A transcription of the original description follows.
Liguus crenatus cingulatus, n. subsp.
Shell rather small, inflated, usually thin, with somewhat rounded whorls, pure white with a broad spiral pale yellow band on the upper part of the whorls and another on the base, with occasionally a few faint spiral lines.
The type measures: Length, 38 mm.; diameter, 20 mm.
The type was collected on Brickell Hammock, Miami, Florida. Others were collected at Timb's Hammock, Miami Hammock, Costello's Hammock, Dade County, Florida, and on Long Island of the Upper Keys.
The type is in the author's collection.

Holotype (from Simpson 1929); recent (courtesy of Pete Krull and the Jacksonville Club)
My take on Simpson's description and type follows.
"Liguus crenatus cingulatus, n. subsp."
I place cingulatus as a junior synonym of elliottensis of the elliottensis group of the solidus subspecies. The varieties of this group have a white tip and parietal, and are zonated and unvariegated.
"Shell rather small, inflated, usually thin, with somewhat rounded whorls, pure white with a broad spiral pale yellow band on the upper part of the whorls and another on the base, with occasionally a few faint spiral lines."
The shell size, shape, thickness and expression of spiral (cuticular) lines are typical of the other solidus varieties of the hammock in which the shell was found. I would describe it as a white to orange shell with zonation.
In 1912, Pilsbry intended the name elliottensis to apply to a white to yellow-banded (zonated) shell. In 1920, Simpson split elliottensis into six subspecies based on localized differences in shape (capensis, vacaensis), location alone (eburneus, elliottensis), and noticeable yellow banding (cingulatus). His unique crassus also appears to be an elliottensis group variety.
Thereafter, collectors generally applied the name cingulatus to any elliottensis group shell with noticeable yellow. Any population of the elliottensis group will have at least some shells expressing some yellow.
The type has lost the yellow coloration it had when figured in 1929. The fact that the type is now a simple white shell that would be placed as elliottensis if data were not attached, is another reason to question the helpfulness of giving even varietal rank to Simpson's shell. See Pilsbry 1946, p 76.


Brickell Hammock
Type locality: Brickell Hammock, Miami.
Holotype: FLMNH 241006.
Description: Liguus crenatus cingulatus Simpson 1920, PBSW, 33: p. 123.
A transcription of the original description follows.
Liguus crenatus cingulatus, n. subsp.
Shell rather small, inflated, usually thin, with somewhat rounded whorls, pure white with a broad spiral pale yellow band on the upper part of the whorls and another on the base, with occasionally a few faint spiral lines.
The type measures: Length, 38 mm.; diameter, 20 mm.
The type was collected on Brickell Hammock, Miami, Florida. Others were collected at Timb's Hammock, Miami Hammock, Costello's Hammock, Dade County, Florida, and on Long Island of the Upper Keys.
The type is in the author's collection.

Holotype (from Simpson 1929); recent (courtesy of Pete Krull and the Jacksonville Club)
My take on Simpson's description and type follows.
"Liguus crenatus cingulatus, n. subsp."
I place cingulatus as a junior synonym of elliottensis of the elliottensis group of the solidus subspecies. The varieties of this group have a white tip and parietal, and are zonated and unvariegated.
"Shell rather small, inflated, usually thin, with somewhat rounded whorls, pure white with a broad spiral pale yellow band on the upper part of the whorls and another on the base, with occasionally a few faint spiral lines."
The shell size, shape, thickness and expression of spiral (cuticular) lines are typical of the other solidus varieties of the hammock in which the shell was found. I would describe it as a white to orange shell with zonation.
In 1912, Pilsbry intended the name elliottensis to apply to a white to yellow-banded (zonated) shell. In 1920, Simpson split elliottensis into six subspecies based on localized differences in shape (capensis, vacaensis), location alone (eburneus, elliottensis), and noticeable yellow banding (cingulatus). His unique crassus also appears to be an elliottensis group variety.
Thereafter, collectors generally applied the name cingulatus to any elliottensis group shell with noticeable yellow. Any population of the elliottensis group will have at least some shells expressing some yellow.
The type has lost the yellow coloration it had when figured in 1929. The fact that the type is now a simple white shell that would be placed as elliottensis if data were not attached, is another reason to question the helpfulness of giving even varietal rank to Simpson's shell. See Pilsbry 1946, p 76.


Brickell Hammock
