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
Author
Brook, Fred J.
Author
Ablett, Jonathan D.
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Zootaxa
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2019-11-14
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Helix campbellica
Filhol, 1880
Filhol, 1880
. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. Series 7, 4: 126.
Type
material:
Whereabouts not known. Not found during a search of the
MNHN
type
collection in 2016, but may be present in the
MNHN
general molluscan collection (
Virginie
Héros
pers. comm., 2016)
.
Type
locality:
‘de l’ile Campbell … une faible distance des bords de la mer, dans la baie de Persévérance, près de la pointe Terror’ (
Filhol 1880: 126
,
1885: 570
).
Remarks:
Filhol described this species from one or more specimens collected on Campbell Island in 1874, during the French transit of Venus expedition. There are no published illustrations of the type material.
Powell (1955: 126)
listed
Thermia
(?)
expeditionis
Suter, 1909 from the
Auckland
Islands as a subjective junior synonym of
Helix campbellica
, and erected the new subgenus
Phrixgnathus
(
Taguahelix
)
, with
Thermia
(?)
expeditionis
Suter (=
Helix campbellica
Filhol, 1880
) as the type species, by original designation. Examination of the
holotype
of
Phrixgnathus viridulus caswelli
Dell, 1955
indicates that it is a subjective junior synonym of
Helix campbellica
Filhol,
N.
syn.
Current Taxonomy:
Listed as
Taguahelix campbellica
(
Filhol, 1880
)
by
Climo & Goulstone (1993: 28)
and
Spencer
et al
. (2009: 217)
.
Distribution:
New Zealand
; southwestern South Island, Stewart Island,
Auckland
and Campbell islands (
Filhol 1880
;
Powell 1955
,
1979
; AIM and NMNZ collection records).