Helix subprofuga var. maxima Bellini, 1915: 170

Fasulo, Giuseppe, Duraccio, Sergio, Federico, Antonio & Crocetta, Fabio, 2019, The (almost) unknown Italian naturalist Raffaello Bellini (1874 - 1930): biography malacological publications, and status of his recent molluscan taxa, Zootaxa 4668 (3), pp. 343-369 : 360-361

Helix subprofuga var. maxima Bellini, 1915: 170

Type locality: Paludi al Vasto (Naples, Italy) .

Original description: “esemplari di grande dimensioni e magnifica colorazione” [big-sized specimens with wonderful colours].

Material examined: four glued shells labelled “Dono Bellini” [Donated by Bellini] and “ Helix (Heliomanes) subprofuga Sta.—(Xerophila)—Capri” and labelled by Bellini “ Helix subprofuga, Stabile—Capri ” (MZF2— Z6969); 18 shells labelled by Bellini “ H. (Xerophila) subprofuga , Stabile—juv.—Capri” (MCCIC—drawer 19, n. 297b). All these shells belong to the Cernuella cisalpina (Rossmässler, 1837) species complex.

Remarks: having been instituted on the basis of insignificant morphological characteristics, we rank it infrasubspecific, and thus not available ( ICZN 2012: Art. 10.2, 45 .5, 45.6, glossary). Alzona (1971) listed “ maxima Bellini 1915 ” as a synonym of Helicella (Cernuella) subprofuga (Stabile, 1864) , now Cernuella cisalpina (Rossmässler, 1837) . Manganelli & Giusti (1988) considered this taxon as belonging to the “small Cernuella group”, with an uncertain identity. Specimens ascribed to C. cisalpina were found again in Capri Island during recent field studies ( Petraccioli et al. 2005, 2006).