Janella antipodarum Gray, 1853

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 : 22-23

Janella antipodarum Gray, 1853

Gray, 1853. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 2, 12: 414. Type material: Single specimen in the British Museum ( Gray & Pfeiffer, 1855: 6); seen by G.M. Barker in 1980s, but not found in NHMUK collections in 2018, and present whereabouts unknown. Cited by Barker (2018: 219) as ‘ Holotype NHMUK 45.4.18.1’, which refers to NHMUK 1845.4.18.1 from the mixed inveretebrate registers housed in the Mollusca section.

Type locality: ‘New Zealand’ ( Gray 1853: 414).

Remarks: The original description, which was reproduced by Gray (1854: 111–112), did not state where in New Zealand this species was collected, or by whom. There are no published illustrations of the type material.

Current Taxonomy: Treated as a subjective junior synonym of Limax bitentaculatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 by Burton (1963: 51), Powell (1979: 298), albeit without examination of type material (see Barker 2018: 219).