Helix luteola, Ferussac, 1825

Cowie, Robert H., Héros, Virginie, Yeung, Norine W. & Hayes, Kenneth A., 2016, Annotated catalogue of types of Hawaiian land and freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with lectotype designations, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 245-266 : 257

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n2a4
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Helix luteola
status

Treatment

luteola Férussac, 1825 View in CoL , Helix

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Helix luteola Férussac View in CoL in Quoy & Gaimard, 1825: 480. Achatina luteola – Deshayes 1851: 195, pl. 155, fig. 12.

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Amastrinae, Amastra View in CoL . Valid species.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype (monotypy) MNHN IM-2000-30829.

TYPE LOCALITY. — “probable qu’elle vient des îles Mariannes ” (probably came from the Mariana Islands; error, correctly the Hawaiian Islands ) .

REMARKS

Férussac in Quoy & Gaimard (1825: 480) stated “Elle a été trouvée par M. Gaudichaud. II est probable qu’elle vient des îles Mariannes. Nous n’avons vu qu’un exemplaire”. The holotype was thus fixed by monotypy ( ICZN 1999, art. 73.1.2). The labels of MNHN IM-2000-30829, one of which is a black-bordered label typical of the Férussac collection, indicate that the single specimen was received from “Gaudicho”, confirming that it was obtained by the Freycinet expedition, as Gaudichaud served as botanist on the voyage. This Férussac label also gives the Iles Mariannes as the locality. However, as an amastrid, a family endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, it could not have come from the Mariana Islands, and was no doubt obtained during the expedition’s time in the Hawaiian Islands in 1819 (Freycinet 1839: 518). The specimen closely matches that treated and illustrated by Deshayes (1851: 195, pl. 155, fig. 12). It is therefore considered here to be the holotype.