Ennea maritzburgensis var. contracta 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 maritzburgensis var. contracta Burnup, 1914 Fig. 1C

Ennea maritzburgensis var. contracta Burnup, 1914: 66, pl. 4, figs 42-44.

Type locality.

"Nottingham Road (A. J. Taynton), very plentiful; also Karkloof and Curry’s Post (Taynton), all in Natal" ( Burnup 1914: 66).

Type material.

Paratypes NMNZ M.207175 (3 shells, Nottingham Road, ex H. Suter colln 5712).

Current taxonomic status.

Junior homonym of Ennea contracta Quadras & Mollendorff, 1895. Accepted as Gulella maritzburgensis (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1893) ( Herbert and Kilburn 2004: 181).

Discussion.

The locality of the present specimens matches the type locality; they are thus considered paratypes. Further type specimens in the NHM include the holotype (NHMUK 1914.12.19.16, Nottingham Road, presented by Burnup) and five paratypes (NHMUK 1914.12.19.55-57, Nottingham Road, presented by Burnup; NHMUK 1937.12.30.1048-1050, Natal, ex. Connolly collection), all housed in a single lot.

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.