Neojanella dubia Cockerell, 1891

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, Zootaxa 4697 (1), pp. 1-117 : 23

Neojanella dubia Cockerell, 1891

Cockerell, 1891b. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, (1891): 217.

Type material: Holotype, by monotypy, NHMUK 1876.2 .14.1 (specimen in alcohol); exchanged with Colonial Museum , Wellington.

Label details: ‘S. side of Cook’s Straits, New Zealand, Exchange with Wellington Mus.’.

Type locality: ‘south side of Cook’s Straits, New Zealand’ ( Cockerell 1891b: 218 b).

Remarks: Original description based on a single specimen (Cockerell 1891: 218b). Neojanella dubia is the type species of Neojanella Cockerell, 1891 , by monotypy. Neojanella Cockerell, 1891 was listed as a junior synonym of Athoracophorus Gould, 1852 by Suter (1909c: 321, 1913b: 790), Burton (1963: 50) and Powell (1979: 298).

Current Taxonomy: Treated as a subjective junior synonym of Limax bitentaculatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 by Suter (1909c: 322, 1913b: 792), Burton (1963: 51) and Powell (1979: 298), albeit without examination of type material (see Barker 2018: 222).