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Ptychodon magdalenae Ancey 1891

Description

Ptychodon magdalenae Ancey, 1891

Pl. 6, fig. A

Ancey, 1891. The British Naturalist, 1: 65.

Type material: Syntypes (2), NMW.1955.158.24208 (dry shell material).

Label details: ‘N. Zélande (Ex Staudinger)’.

Type locality: ‘ New Zealand, probably in the Northern Island’ (Ancey 1891: 65).

Previous illustrations of type material: Wood & Gallichan (2008: pl. 14, fig. 1.1).

Current Taxonomy: Treated as a junior synonym of Helix hectori Suter, 1890 by Hedley & Suter (1893: 652), Suter (1894d: 260, 1913b: 691), Climo (1969a: 189) and Powell (1979: 305).

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 page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4697.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3542832

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NMW
Scientific name authorship
Ancey
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Charopidae
Genus
Ptychodon
Species
magdalenae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Ptychodon magdalenae Ancey, 1891 sec. Brook & Ablett, 2019

References

  • Ancey, C. M. F. (1891) Description of a new species of Helicidae. The British Naturalist, 1, 65 - 66.
  • Wood, H. & Gallichan, J. (2008) The New Molluscan Names of Cesar-Marie-Felix Ancey including illustrations of type material from the National Museum of Wales. Studies in Biodiversity and Systematics of Terrestrial Organisms from the National Museum of Wales. Biotr Reports, 3, i-vi + 1 - 162, 26 pls.
  • Suter, H. (1890) Descriptions of new species of New Zealand land and fresh-water shells. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 22, 221 - 230.
  • Hedley, C. & Suter, H. (1893) Reference list of the land and freshwater Mollusca of New Zealand. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Series 2, 7, 613 - 665.
  • Suter, H. (1894 d) Liste synonymique et bibliographique des Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la Nouvelle-Zelande. Journal de Conchyliologie, 41, 220 - 293.
  • Suter, H. (1913 b) Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. MacKay, Government Printer, Wellington, 1120 pp.
  • Climo, F. M. (1969 a) Classification of New Zealand Arionacea (Mollusca: Pulmonata). II. A revision of Charopa subgenus Pty- chodon Ancey, 1888. Records of the Dominion Museum, 6, 175 - 258.
  • Powell, A. W. B. (1979) New Zealand Mollusca. Collins, Auckland, 500 pp.