Cyclophorus cytora 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 : 17

Cyclophorus cytora Gray, 1850

Pl. 1, fig. A

Gray, 1850. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 17 (1849): 167.

Type material: Syntype (1), NHMUK 1849.12 .3.43 (dry shell material) .

Label details: ‘ New Zealand, Maj. Greenwood’.

Type locality: ‘ Auckland, New Zealand’ (Gray 1850: 167) .

Remarks: The original description, which was reproduced by Gray (1851: 67), was based on one or more specimens collected at or near Auckland c. 1847–1849 by Major Joseph Greenwood, and sent to the British Museum. The only known extant syntype is illustrated here for the first time. Fresh shells of this species have a periostracum with hairs at intersections of spiral and axial riblets (see Marshall & Barker 2007: fig. 7B), but this has evidently been largely eroded from the illustrated syntype. Type species of Cytora Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 , by tautonomy.

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Cytora cytora (Gray, 1850) by Powell (1957: 90, 1979: 84), Climo (1970b: 213), Marshall & Barker (2007: 63) and Spencer et al. (2009: 203).

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