Bulimus, Bertrand, 1763

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 : 73

Bulimus ? (Laoma) leimonias Gray, 1850

Pl. 8, fig. C

Gray, 1850. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 17 (1849): 167.

Type material: Holotype, by monotypy, NHMUK 1849.12 .3.79 (dry shell material).

Label details: ‘N.Z. Major Greenwood’.

Type locality: ‘Auckland’ (Gray 1850: 167).

Remarks: The original description of this species, which was reproduced by Gray (1851: 67), was based on a single specimen collected at Auckland c. 1847–1849 and sent to the British Museum by Major Joseph Greenwood (Gray 1850: 167). The holotype is illustrated here for the first time (pl. 8, fig. C). Bulimus ? ( Laoma ) leimonia s Gray, 1850 is the type species of Laoma Gray, 1850 , by monotypy.

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Laoma leimonias (Gray, 1850) by Hutton (1880: 21), Hedley & Suter (1893: 646), Suter (1894d: 274, 1913b: 735), Powell (1979: 324) and Spencer et al. (2009: 217).

Distribution: New Zealand; northern North Island ( Suter 1913b; Powell 1979).