Helicter ( Leptachatina ) brevicula Pease, 1869: 169
Leptachatina ( Leptachatina )
Annotated catalogue of types of Hawaiian land and freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with lectotype designations
Cowie, Robert H.
Héros, Virginie
Yeung, Norine W.
Hayes, Kenneth A.
Zoosystema
2016
2016-06-30
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Pease, 1869
Pease
1869
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Gastropoda
Achatinellidae
Helicter
GBIF
Animalia
Stylommatophora
9
254
Mollusca
species
brevicula
( Fig. 3C)
Helicter( Leptachatina) brevicula Pease, 1869: 169. CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Leptachatininae, Leptachatina( Leptachatina). Valid species.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Lectotype(Fischer-Piette 1950: 72) MNHNIM-2000-30819; paralectotype MNHNIM-2000-30820 (1 spm). TYPELOCALITY. — “Ins. Kauai”.
REMARKS The original description was explicitly based on specimens in the collections of both Pease and Crosse, and noted that the shells had a variable number of whorls (“cinq à six”). Cooke ( in Hyatt & Pilsbry 1910[in 1910-1911]: 24, pl. 8, fig. 54) illustrated a “Cotype” (ANSP 57802). Fischer-Piette (1950: 72) listed an “Exemplaire-type” and a “ paratype” (now MNHN IM-2000-30819 and MNHN IM-2000-30820, respectively) as well as the “ paratype” of Cooke, which is here treated as designation of a lectotypeand paralectotypes(see introductory text regarding lectotypes). The two MNHN specimens are 7.7 mm ( lectotype) and 7.1 mm ( paralectotype) in height, almost the exact measurements of the “Exemplaire-type” and “ paratype”, respectively, of Fischer-Piette. A label of the collection of the Journal de Conchyliologie, associated with these specimens and written at the time of Fischer-Piette, says “type + paratype”. Johnson (1994: 8)referenced Fischer-Piette’s statement but credited him with having listed the “Measured holotypeand paratype”, and noted Cooke’s “ paratype” as well as additional “ paratypes” (MCZ 45195).
MNHN
9
254
2
lectotype