Helix ide Gray, 1850

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 : 46

Helix ide Gray, 1850

Gray, 1850. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 17 (1849): 166.

Type material: Original description based on one or more specimens in the British Museum (Gray 1850); not found in NHMUK collections in 2018, whereabouts unknown .

Type locality: ‘Auckland’ (Gray 1850: 166).

Previous illustrations of type material: Pfeiffer (1853 [in 1852–1860]: pl. 155, figs. 34–36)—possible syntype; Tryon (1886 [from Pfeiffer, 1853]: pl. 62, figs. 32–34 [as Charopa ida ])—possible syntype. A shell illustrated by Reeve (1852 [in 1851–1854]: pl. 130, fig. 789) was from the Cuming collection, and there is no evidence to indicate that it was from the type series.

Remarks: The original description, which was reproduced by Gray (1851: 66), was based on one or more specimens collected c. 1847–1849 at or near Auckland by Major Joseph Greenwood, and sent to the British Museum. Helix ide Gray, 1850 is the type species of Patulopsis Suter, 1892 (non Strebel & Pfeffer, 1880), by original designation; and of Suteria Pilsbry, 1892 (replacement name for Patulopsis Suter ).

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Suteria ide (Gray, 1850) by Hedley & Suter (1893: 642), Suter (1913b: 670), Powell (1979: 312) and Spencer et al. (2009: 216).

Distribution: New Zealand; North and South islands ( Suter 1913b; Powell 1979).