Helix barbatula Reeve, 1852

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 : 29

Helix barbatula Reeve, 1852

Pl. 2, fig. C

Reeve, (1851–1854) 1852. Conchologia iconica, 7: species 814, pl. 132 fig. 814.

Type material: Lectotype, and paralectotypes (2), NHMUK 1962723 (dry shell material); ex. Mus. Cuming (Acc. no. 1829) . Lectotype fixed by inference of holotype ( ICZN Article 74.6) by Climo (1980: 296) .

Label details: ‘New Zealand’

Type locality: ‘New Zealand’ (Reeve, 1852 [in 1851–1854]: species 814).

Previous illustrations of type material: Reeve (1852 [in 1851–1854]: pl. 132, fig. 814); Pfeiffer (1853 [in Pfeiffer 1852–1860]: pl. 155, figs. 53–56—as Helix beta ); Climo (1980: figs. 1 A, B).

Remarks: Helix barbatula Reeve, 1852 and H. beta Pfeiffer, 1853 are based on the same type material, which H. Cuming obtained from the Australian-based naturalist Frederick Strange. Helix barbatula Reeve, 1852 is the type species of Pulchridomus Climo, 1980 , by original designation.

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Pulchridomus barbatulus (Reeve, 1852) by Climo (1980: 295) and Spencer et al. (2009: 216).

Distribution: New Zealand; central North Island and southern South Island ( Climo 1980).