Janella maculata Collinge, 1894

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 : 23-24

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).