Ennea elliptica var. manca Burnup, 1914

Salvador, Rodrigo B. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2020, Type specimens of Streptaxidae from Henry C. Burnup in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, African Invertebrates 61 (2), pp. 107-117 : 107

Ennea elliptica var. manca Burnup, 1914 Fig. 1F

Ennea elliptica var. manca Burnup, 1914: 39, pl. 3, figs 13, 14.

Type locality.

"Fort Nottingham; also Curry’s Post, Natal (A. J. Taynton)" ( Burnup 1914: 39).

Material.

NMNZ M.207151 (1 shell, Nottingham Road, ex H. Suter colln 5704).

Current taxonomic status.

Synonymous with Gulella elliptica elliptica (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1898) ( van Bruggen 1980: 20).

Discussion.

The locality of the present specimen (Nottingham Road) is not a perfect match to the type locality given by Burnup (1914), although it is definitely in the same area. Burnup (1914) recorded Fort Nottingham as a different locality than Nottingham Road (see entry for G. melvilli below). As such, the present specimen is not considered type material. The types can be found in the NHM collection: holotype (NHMUK 1914.12.19.10, Fort Nottingham, presented by Burnup) and two paratypes (NHMUK 1914.12.19.23-24 Fort Nottingham, presented by Burnup), all housed in a single lot. A further specimen in the NHM (NHMUK 1937.12.30.801, ex. Connolly collection), despite being noted as a paratype (though original label reads ‘co-type’), is not in fact a type, as it was collected in Karkloof, which is not part of the type locality ( Burnup 1914).

Figures

Figure 1. Burnup's type specimens in the NMNZ collection. All figures to scale (bar = 1 mm), except for Fig. 1 G, not to scale (bar = 0.5 mm) A paratype of Ennea farquhari var. avena Burnup, 1914, NMZN M. 207153 B paratype of Ennea farquhari var. avena Burnup, 1914, NMZN M. 207154 C paratype of Ennea maritzburgensis var. contracta Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207175 D paratype of Ennea darglensis var. illovoensis Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207156 E paratype of Ennea inhluzaniensis Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207160 F specimen of Gulella elliptica manca (Burnup, 1914), NMNZ M. 207151 G paratype of Ennea melvilli Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207157 H paratype of Ennea mooiensis Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207158 I paratype of Ennea ponsonbyi Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207159 J paratype of Ennea isipingoensis var. sturanyi Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207149.