Cyclophorus, Montfort, 1810

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 : 19

Cyclostoma ( Cyclophorus ?) lignarium Pfeiffer, 1857

Pl. 1, fig. B

Pfeiffer, 1857. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 25 (1857): 112.

Type material: Lectotype NHMUK 1968851 /1 and paralectotypes (2), NHMUK 198851 /2–3 (dry shell material); ex. Museum Cuming (Acc. no. 1829) . Lectotype designated by Marshall & Barker (2007: 84).

Label details: ‘ Cyclophorus ? lignarius Pfr New Zealand’—in Pfeiffer’s handwriting.

Type locality: ‘New Zealand’ ( Pfeiffer, 1857b: 112).

Previous illustrations of type material: Reeve (1861: pl. 19, fig. 94).

Remarks: Historically there was confusion over the identity of Cyclostoma lignarium , as shown in the synonymy of Marshall & Barker (2007: 84). Earlier workers had mis-applied Pfeiffer’s name to a species from the southern North and northern South Islands that Marshall & Barker (2007) subsequently named Cytora kamura . The latter authors noted that Murdochia ampla Powell, 1941 is a junior subjective synonym of Cyclostoma lignarium Pfeiffer, 1857 .

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Cytora lignaria (Pfeiffer, 1857) by Marshall & Barker (2007: 84) and Spencer et al. (2009: 203).

Distribution: New Zealand; northernmost North Island ( Marshall & Barker 2007).