Helix flammigera Pfeiffer, 1854

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 : 44

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scientific name	Helix flammigera Pfeiffer, 1854
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Pfeiffer, 1854. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 20 (1852): 147.

Type material: Although not stated by Pfeiffer (1854), this species was probably described from one or more specimens in the Cuming collection; the type material was not found in NHMUK collections in 2018, whereabouts unknown .

Type locality: ‘New Zealand’ (Pfeiffer 1854: 147).

Remarks: No published illustrations of type material are available. Considered conspecific with Vitrina zebra Le Guillou, 1842 ; Helix multilimbata Hombron & Jacquinot, 1847 and Helix phlogophora Pfeiffer, 1850 (e.g., Martens 1873: 12; Hutton 1884b: 198; Hedley & Suter 1893: 643; Suter 1913b: 680; Powell 1979: 314).

Current Taxonomy: Treated as a junior synonym of Vitrina zebra ( Le Guillou, 1842) by Hutton (1884b: 198) and Powell (1979: 314).

References

Hedley, C. & Suter, H. (1893) Reference list of the land and freshwater Mollusca of New Zealand. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Series 2, 7, 613 - 665.

Hutton, F. W. (1884 b) Revision of the land Mollusca of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 16, 186 - 212.

Le Guillou, E. (1842) Description de vingt-sept especes d'Helices nouvelles. Revue Zoologique par La Societe Cuvierienne, 1842, 136 - 141.

Martens, K. E. von (1873) Critical list of the Mollusca of New Zealand contained in European collections, with references to descriptions and synonyms. Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department; Hughes, Government Printer, Wellington, v + 51 + viii + 3 pp.

Powell, A. W. B. (1979) New Zealand Mollusca. Collins, Auckland, 500 pp.

Suter, H. (1913 b) Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. MacKay, Government Printer, Wellington, 1120 pp.