Helix phlogophora Pfeiffer, 1850

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 : 55

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Pl. 14, fig. C, Pl. 16, fig. B

Pfeiffer, 1850. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 17 (1849): 127.

Type material: A specimen in the Mousson collection, ZMZ 501231, ex Museum Cuming, is interpreted here as a probable syntype of Helix phlogophora . No type material of H. plogophora was found in NHMUK collections in 2018.

Label details: ‘ Th. phlogophora Pfr. 10 ( multilimbata Jacq. ), N. Seland (Cuming. 55)’, in Mousson’s handwriting.

Type locality: ‘Locality unknown’ (Pfeiffer 1850: 127), ‘Nova Seelandia’ ( Pfeiffer 1853a: 34).

Previous illustrations of type material: Reeve (1852 [in 1851–1854]: pl. 130, fig. 790); Pfeiffer (1853 [in 1852–1860]: pl. 155, figs. 1–4); Tryon (1885 [from Reeve, 1852]: pl. 26, fig. 10).

Remarks: Original description based on one or more specimens in Cuming collection (Pfeiffer 1850: 127). Conspecific with Vitrina zebra Guillou, 1842 , Helix multilimbata Hombron & Jacquinot, 1847 , and Helix flammigera Pfeiffer, 1854 (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), Iredale (1915: 480) 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.

Pfeiffer, L. (1853 a) Monographia heliceorum viventium. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium huius familiae generum et specierum hodie cognitarum. Vol. 3. Brockhaus, Lipsiae, 711 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.

Tryon, G. W. (1885) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Series 2. Pulmonata. Vol. 1. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 364 pp.