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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Nanina
?
celinde
Gray, 1850
Pl. 3, fig. A
Gray, 1850, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 17 (1849): 164.
Type material:
Lectotype
(here designated),
NHMUK
1849.12.3.86;
paralectotype
(1),
NHMUK 1849.12
.3.87 (dry shell material).
Label details:
‘N.Z. Major Greenwood’.
Type
locality:
‘Auckland’ (Gray 1850: 165).
Remarks:
The original description of this species, which was reproduced by
Gray (1851: 64)
, was based on material collected c.
1847–1849
at or near
Auckland
, by Major Joseph Greenwood, and sent to the British Museum. There are apparently no previous illustrations of type material from the British Museum collection. A shell figured by Reeve (1852 [in
1851–1854
]: pl. 131, fig. 799; also see
Tryon 1886
: pl. 62, fig. 41) was from H. Cuming’s collection, and there is no evidence to indicate that it was from the type series of
celinde
. Our examination shows that NHMUK 1849.12.3.86–87 contains two species. The specimen illustrated here in pl. 3, fig. A, which matches Gray’s original description of
celinde
, and corresponds to
New Zealand
workers’ interpretation of this species (e.g.,
Suter 1913b: 656
, pl. 26, figs. 4, a, b;
Cumber 1967c: 65
, figs. 3 A–F, 4 E–F), is here designated as the
lectotype
of
Nanina
?
celinde
Gray, 1850
. The second specimen in the type lot appears to be
Therasiella tamora
(Hutton, 1883)
.
Nanina
?
celinde
Gray, 1850
is the type species of
Therasiella
Powell, 1948
, by original designation.
Current Taxonomy:
Listed as
Therasiella celinde
(Gray, 1850)
by
Powell (1957: 118
,
1979: 311
),
Cumber (1967c: 65)
and
Spencer
et al
. (2009: 216)
.
Distribution:
New Zealand
; northern North Island (
Cumber 1967c
;
Powell 1979
).