Janella maculata Collinge, 1894

Collinge, 1894. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, (1894): 527.

Type material: Syntypes (2), NHMUK 1896.1.22.33–34 (specimens in alcohol) .

Label details: ’Forty Mile Bush, North Island, New Zealand (H. Suter). Purch/ W.E. Collinge’.

Type locality: ‘ Forty Mile Bush, North Island, New Zealand’ (Collinge 1894: 527) .

Previous illustrations of type material: Collinge (1894: text figs. 1, 3, 5).

Remarks: The type material of this species was collected and sent to the British Museum by Henry Suter (Collinge 1894; Suter 1897a).

Current Taxonomy: Treated as a junior synonym of Limax bitentaculatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 by Suter (1897a: 247, 1909c: 322, 1913b: 792), Burton (1963: 51) and Powell (1979: 298), albeit without examination of type material (see Barker 2018: 228).