Lanistes neavei

Cowie, Robert H., 2015, The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda, Zootaxa 3940 (1), pp. 1-92 : 21-22

neavei

Lanistes neavei Melvill & Standen, 1907: 6 , un-numbered pl., fig. 1. Type material — syntypes: MCZ 173050 (2 spms.), MMUE EE.7815 (1 spm., figured), MMUE EE.7816 (7 spms.) ( McGhie 2008: 24), NMW.Z.1981.118.00113 (2 spms.), NMW.Z.1981.118.00553 (2 spms.), NMW.1955.158.01098 (2 spms), USNM 708877 (1 spm., labelled “ paralectotype ” but no lectotype appears to have been designated). Type locality —“Kapopo” [southwest of Ndola, Zambia ( Neave 1907: un-numbered pl.]. Distribution — Zambia, southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Brown 1980: 50, 1994: 60).

Remarks. Valid species, teste G.B. Sowerby III (1916: 67), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 187), Brown (1980: 50, 1994: 60) and Berthold (1991: 246), who all placed it in Lanistes s. str. The name leavei Kobelt (1909: 79) is considered a lapsus calami and unavailable.