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
2019
2019-11-14
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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
).