Helix phlogophora Pfeiffer, 1850

Pl. 14, fig. C, Pl. 16, fig. B

Pfeiffer, 1850. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 17 (1849): 127.

Type material: A specimen in the Mousson collection, ZMZ 501231, ex Museum Cuming, is interpreted here as a probable syntype of Helix phlogophora . No type material of H. plogophora was found in NHMUK collections in 2018.

Label details: ‘ Th. phlogophora Pfr. 10 ( multilimbata Jacq.), N. Seland (Cuming. 55)’, in Mousson’s handwriting.

Type locality: ‘Locality unknown’ (Pfeiffer 1850: 127), ‘Nova Seelandia’ (Pfeiffer 1853a: 34).

Previous illustrations of type material: Reeve (1852 [in 1851–1854]: pl. 130, fig. 790); Pfeiffer (1853 [in 1852–1860]: pl. 155, figs. 1–4); Tryon (1885 [from Reeve, 1852]: pl. 26, fig. 10).

Remarks: Original description based on one or more specimens in Cuming collection (Pfeiffer 1850: 127). Conspecific with Vitrina zebra Guillou, 1842, Helix multilimbata Hombron & Jacquinot, 1847, and Helix flammigera Pfeiffer, 1854 (e.g., Martens 1873: 12; Hutton 1884b: 198; Hedley & Suter 1893: 643; Suter 1913b: 680; Powell 1979: 314).

Current Taxonomy: Treated as a junior synonym of Vitrina zebra Le Guillou, 1842 by Hutton (1884b: 198), Iredale (1915: 480) and Powell (1979: 314).