Helix dunniae Gray, 1840

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 : 76-77

Helix dunniae Gray, 1840

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Gray, 1840. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6: 317.

Type material: Syntype (1), NHMUK 1840.10 .30.3 (dry shell material) .

Label details: ‘N. Zealand, Mrs. Dunn’.

Type locality: ‘New Zealand’ ( Gray 1840: 317).

Previous illustrations of type material: Smith (1874: pl. 1, fig. 7). The shell illustrated by Pfeiffer (1852 [in 1852–1860]: pl. 127, figs. 33–35) may be type material.

Remarks: The original description was based on one or more specimens collected by James Busby and donated to the British Museum by Mrs Dunn ( Gray 1840: 317). Helix dunniae Gray, 1840 is the type species of Amborhytida Climo, 1974 , by original designation.

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Amborhytida dunniae ( Gray, 1840) by Spencer et al. (2006: 838) and Spencer et al. (2009: 218).

Distribution: New Zealand; northern North Island, from Kaitaia to Auckland ( Powell 1979; Spencer et al. 2006).