Ennea isipingoensis var. sturanyi Burnup, 1914

Salvador, Rodrigo B. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2020, Type specimens of Streptaxidae from Henry C. Burnup in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, African Invertebrates 61 (2), pp. 107-117 : 107

Ennea isipingoensis var. sturanyi Burnup, 1914 Fig. 1J

Ennea isipingoensis var. sturanyi Burnup, 1914: 36, pl. 3, figs 4-6.

Type locality.

"Ntimbankulu, Mid-Illovo (Burnup). Other localities: Karkloof (Taynton), Maritzburg, Howick and Dargle (Burnup)" ( Burnup 1914: 37).

Type material.

Paratypes NMNZ M.207149 (3 shells, Karkloof, ex H. Suter colln 5703).

Current taxonomic status.

Synonymous with Gulella isipingoensis (Sturany, 1898) ( Herbert and Kilburn 2004: 188).

Discussion.

The locality of the type figured by Burnup (1914) is Ntimbankulu. The NMNZ specimens, from Karkloof, are paratypes. Further type specimens in the NHM include the holotype (NHMUK 1914.12.19.7, Ntimbankulu, presented by Burnup) and four paratypes (NHMUK 1914.12.19.33-36, Ntimbankulu, presented by Burnup; NHMUK 1937.12.30.978-979, Natal, ex. Connolly collection), all housed in a single lot, and four further possible paratypes (NHMUK 1914.12.19.18-21, Ntimbankulu, presented by Burnup) which were not listed as type material in the original register entry yet match the type locality. A specimen noted as 'possible syntype’ is housed in the Manchester Museum, UK, under the registry number MANCH.EE.5867 ( McGhie 2008; Ablett et al. 2019). That specimen is labelled ‘Natal’ and lists Spence as collector, which does not coincide with the data published in Burnup (1914). There is also no mention of anyone named Spence in Burnup’s land snail material (or at all) in the KwaZulu-Natal Museum. We conclude that the Manchester Museum specimen is, therefore, not part of the type series.

Figures

Figure 1. Burnup's type specimens in the NMNZ collection. All figures to scale (bar = 1 mm), except for Fig. 1 G, not to scale (bar = 0.5 mm) A paratype of Ennea farquhari var. avena Burnup, 1914, NMZN M. 207153 B paratype of Ennea farquhari var. avena Burnup, 1914, NMZN M. 207154 C paratype of Ennea maritzburgensis var. contracta Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207175 D paratype of Ennea darglensis var. illovoensis Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207156 E paratype of Ennea inhluzaniensis Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207160 F specimen of Gulella elliptica manca (Burnup, 1914), NMNZ M. 207151 G paratype of Ennea melvilli Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207157 H paratype of Ennea mooiensis Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207158 I paratype of Ennea ponsonbyi Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207159 J paratype of Ennea isipingoensis var. sturanyi Burnup, 1914, NMNZ M. 207149.