Zonites, Fabricius, 1775

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 : 76

Zonites ? coresia Gray, 1850

Pl. 9, fig. B

Gray, 1850. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 17 (1849): 166.

Type material: Lectotype, NHMUK 1849.12 .3.73, and paralectotypes (3), NHMUK 1849.12 .3.74, NHMUK 1850.12.28.496–497 (combined lot, dry shell material); one specimen remaining in type series, with label stating ‘3 shells smashed on tablet’ . Lectotype fixed by inference of holotype ( ICZN Article 74.6) by Roscoe (1989: fig. 1D) .

Label details: ‘ New Zealand, Major Greenwood’.

Type locality: ‘ Auckland, New Zealand’ (Gray 1850: 166) .

Previous illustrations of type material: Roscoe (1989: fig. 1D); the shell illustrated by Pfeiffer (1853 [in 1852–1860]: pl. 155, figs. 23–26) and Tryon (1885 [from Pfeiffer 1853]: pl. 26, fig. 15) may also be from the type series.

Remarks: The original description, which was reproduced by Gray (1851: 66), was based on material collected at Auckland by Major Joseph Greenwood c. 1847–1849 and sent to the British Museum (Gray 1850). Zonites ? coresia Gray, 1850 is the type species of Elaea Hutton, 1883 (non Stål, 1877), by original designation, and of the replacement genus names Rhenea Hutton, 1893 (non Saalmueller, 1884), and Delos Hutton, 1904 , by designation of Hutton (1883c: 532) (see ICZN Article 67.8).

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Delos coresia (Gray, 1850) by Suter (1913b: 787), Climo (1977: 61), Powell (1979: 348) and Spencer et al. (2009: 218).

Distribution: New Zealand; North Island, including Hauraki Gulf islands, and Marlborough Sounds in the north-eastern South Island ( Powell 1979; Roscoe 1989).