Realia egea Gray, 1850

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 : 17

Realia egea Gray, 1850

Pl. 1, fig. C

Gray, 1850. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 17 (1849): 167.

Type material: Syntypes (6), NHMUK 1849.12.3.131–132, NHMUK 1850.12.28.492–495 (combined lots, dry shell material) .

Label details: ‘ New Zealand, Major Greenwood’.

Type locality: ‘ Auckland, New Zealand’ (Gray, 1850: 167) .

Previous illustrations of type material: There were no illustrations accompanying Gray’s description; a shell illustrated by Pfeiffer (1854 [in Pfeiffer, 1853–1854]: pl. 40, figs. 17, 18) may or may not be from the type series.

Remarks: The original description of this species, which was reproduced by Gray (1851: 67), was based on material that was collected at or near Auckland c. 1847–1849 by Major Joseph Greenwood, and sent to the British Museum. Type species of Liarea Pfeiffer, 1853b: 217 , by monotypy.

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Liarea egea (Gray, 1850) by Powell (1954: 284, 1979: 82) and Spencer et al. (2009: 203).

Distribution: New Zealand; northern North Island, Hauraki Gulf islands ( Powell 1954).