A Sicilian-Cretan biogeographical disjunction in the land snail genus Cornu (Gastropoda: Helicidae)
Author
Hausdorf, Bernhard
Author
Bamberger, Sonja
Author
Walther, Frank
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2021
192
59
74
journal article
0024-4082
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SUBGENUS
ERCTELLA
MONTEROSATO, 1894
Type
species by subsequent designation (
Barker, 1999: 62
):
Helix mazzullii
De Cristofori & Jan, 1832
.
Remarks:
Colomba
et al.
(2011)
stated that the
type
species of
Erctella
was designated by
Pilsbry (1895: 316)
. However,
Pilsbry (1895)
only mentioned that
Erctella
was established ‘for
H. mazzullii
’ and missed that
Monterosato (1894)
included
Helix
(
Erctella
)
costae
Benoit, 1857
as a second nominal species in
Erctella
or considered this unimportant because he included
H. costae
in the synonymy of
H. mazzullii
. This does not constitute a valid
type
species designation (see also:
Welter-Schultes, 2012
).
Welter-Schultes (2012)
suggested that
Schileyko (2006)
was the first to designate the
type
species of
Erctella
. However, this had already been done by
Barker (1999)
. It does not matter that
Barker (1999)
erroneously thought that
H. mazzullii
is the
type
species of
Erctella
by monotypy [as
Schileyko (2006)
also did;
ICZN, 1999
: Article 69.1.1].