Amalia antipodarum var. pallida Cockerell, 1891

Brook, Fred J. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2019, Type material of land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) described from New Zealand by taxonomists in Europe and North America between 1830 and 1934, and the history of research on the New Zealand land snail fauna from 1824 to 1917, Zootaxa 4697 (1), pp. 1-117 : 67-68

Amalia antipodarum var. pallida Cockerell, 1891

Cockerell, 1891a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 7: 340.

Type material: Holotype, by monotypy, NHMUK 1886.11 .18.17 (specimen in alcohol); ex Otago University Museum.

Label and register details: ‘Wellington’, ‘Purchased of the Commission for the New Zealand, Indian and Colonial Exhibition 1886’. Type locality: ‘Wellington’ ( Cockerell 1891a: 340). Remarks: There are no published illustrations of the type specimen. Conspecific with Limax gagates Draparnaud, 1801 , a non-native species that was established in New Zealand by 1840 ( Barker 1979: 420, 1982: 178, 1999: 89) (see discussion above under Milax antipodarum ). Current Taxonomy: Treated as a subjective junior synonym of Milax gagates ( Draparnaud, 1801) by Powell (1979) and Barker (1979, 1982, 1999).