Helix radiaria Pfeiffer, 1855

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 : 57

Helix radiaria Pfeiffer, 1855

Pl. 5, fig. G

Pfeiffer, 1855. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 23 (1854): 55.

Type material: Syntype (1), NHMUK 20140672 (dry shell material); ex Museum Cuming (Acc. no. 1829) .

Label details: ‘ radiaria Pfr, Colomons (sic) Island’—in Pfeiffer’s handwriting.

Type locality: Incorrectly stated as ‘Salomon’s Islands’ by Pfeiffer (1855a: 56).

Previous illustrations of type material: Reeve (1854 [in 1851–1854]: pl. 189, fig. 1322); Tryon (1886 [from Reeve 1854]: pl. 62, fig. 52).

Remarks: Original description based on one or more specimens in the Cuming collection. Conspecific with Nanina ? kivi Gray, 1843 and Helix irradiata Gould, 1846 ( Hedley & Suter 1893: 633; Suter 1894d: 247; Suter 1913b: 653). A New Zealand species; records from the Solomon Islands (e.g., by Pfeiffer 1855a: 55, 1859: 166; Tryon 1886: 213) were in error.

Current Taxonomy: Treated as a junior synonym of Nanina ? kivi Gray, 1843 by Hedley & Suter (1893: 633) and Suter (1894d: 247, 1913b: 653).