Helix vulpina, Ferussac, 1825

Cowie, Robert H., Héros, Virginie, Yeung, Norine W. & Hayes, Kenneth A., 2016, Annotated catalogue of types of Hawaiian land and freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with lectotype designations, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 245-266 : 253

vulpina Férussac, 1825 , Helix

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Helix vulpina Férussac in Quoy & Gaimard, 1825: 477, pl. 68, figs 13, 14.

Helix (Cochlogena) vulpina Férussac, 1821a: 60 ; 1821b: 56 [nomen nudum].

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Achatinellinae, Achatinella ( Achatinellastrum Pfeiffer, 1854 ). Valid species.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Syntype MNHN IM-2000-30816 (1 spm).

TYPE LOCALITY. — “les îles Sandwich” (Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, as the genus is endemic to Oahu).

REMARKS

MNHN IM-2000-30816, though similar, does not match either of the shells illustrated by Quoy & Gaimard (1825: pl. 68, figs 13, 14), being paler and more uniform in colour and differing subtly in shape. Labels associated with the specimen, including a black-bordered one typical of the Férussac collection, nonetheless indicate that it was part of the Férussac collection and it is therefore here considered a syntype. The species was treated and illustrated by Deshayes (1851: 193, pl. 155, figs 1, 2) and the shell is a close match in size and shape for that in his fig. 2, but is considerably smaller than that in his fig. 1.

Figures

FIG. 2. — Achatinellidae Gulick, 1873: A, Tornatellina macromphala Ancey, 1904, syntype MNHN IM-2000-20013, 2.6 mm, fig. 3 of Ancey (1904a); B, Auriculella pulchra Pease, 1868, lectotype MNHN IM-2000-30813, 9.5 mm; C, Auriculella uniplicata Pease, 1868, lectotype MNHN IM-2000-30814, 7.3 mm, fig. 7 of Pease (1868); D, Helix vulpina Férussac,1825,possible syntype MNHN IM-2000-30816, 18.0 mm, fig. 13 of Férussac in Quoy & Gaimard (1825). Scale bars: A-C,1 mm; D, 10 mm. Dimensions given are shell height; reproductions of original illustrations not to scale.