Published November 14, 2019 | Version v1
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Janella maculata Collinge 1894

Description

Janella maculata Collinge, 1894

Collinge, 1894. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, (1894): 527.

Type material: Syntypes (2), NHMUK 1896.1.22.33–34 (specimens in alcohol).

Label details: ’Forty Mile Bush, North Island, New Zealand (H. Suter). Purch/ W.E. Collinge’.

Type locality: ‘ Forty Mile Bush, North Island, New Zealand’ (Collinge 1894: 527).

Previous illustrations of type material: Collinge (1894: text figs. 1, 3, 5).

Remarks: The type material of this species was collected and sent to the British Museum by Henry Suter (Collinge 1894; Suter 1897a).

Current Taxonomy: Treated as a junior synonym of Limax bitentaculatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 by Suter (1897a: 247, 1909c: 322, 1913b: 792), Burton (1963: 51) and Powell (1979: 298), albeit without examination of type material (see Barker 2018: 228).

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-117 in Zootaxa 4697 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4697.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3542832

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMUK
Scientific name authorship
Collinge
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Athoracophoridae
Genus
Janella
Species
maculata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Janella maculata Collinge, 1894 sec. Brook & Ablett, 2019

References

  • Collinge, W. E. (1894) Description of a new species of slug of the genus Janella. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1894, 526 - 530.
  • Suter, H. (1897 a) A revision of the New Zealand Athoracophoridae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 2, 245 - 257. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / oxfordjournals. mollus. a 064678
  • Quoy, J. R. C. & Gaimard, J. P. (1832) Voyage de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe. Execute par ordre du Roi, pendant les annees 1826 - 1827 - 1828 - 1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. Tome 2. Part 1 [1832]. J. Tastu, Paris, 320 pp. [published 1832 - 1833 in 2 parts, atlas published 1833]
  • Suter, H. (1909 c) New Zealand Athoracophoridae, with descriptions of two new forms. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 8, 321 - 328.
  • Suter, H. (1913 b) Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. MacKay, Government Printer, Wellington, 1120 pp.
  • Burton, D. W. (1963) A revision of the New Zealand and subantarctic Athoracophoridae. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology, 3, 47 - 75.
  • Powell, A. W. B. (1979) New Zealand Mollusca. Collins, Auckland, 500 pp.
  • Barker, G. M. (2018) Nomenclatural and type catalogue of Athoracophoridae (Mollusca: Eupulmonata: Succineoidea): a synopsis of the first 185 years of biodiscovery in the South West Pacific region. Zootaxa, 4434 (2), 201 - 249. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4434.2.1