Tuhinga 30: 82-98, doi: 10.3897/tuhinga.30.e34249

Brazilian, Uruguayan and Argentinian terrestrial gastropods in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Rodrigo B. Salvador^‡

‡ Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland

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Citation: Salvador RB (2019) Brazilian, Uruguayan and Argentinian terrestrial gastropods in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Tuhinga 30: 82-98. https://doi.org/10.3897/tuhinga.30.e34249

Abstract

The malacological collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (NMNZ), despite naturally focusing on New Zealand species, also includes a variety of specimens from South America. Examination of this material revealed new distributional data for several species. All Brazilian, Uruguayan and Argentinian terrestrial gastropods from the NMNZ collection were examined and reidentified (no material from Paraguay was found). The information gathered was compiled and is presented in this article, and may contain significant data for malacologists working with the region’s fauna. In summary, 99 species are reported, 13 of which represent new records and meaningful increments in geographical distribution, either extending their known range or filling distributional gaps. Moreover, the NMNZ collection houses the type material of six species from Brazil and Argentina described by the New Zealand malacologist Henry Suter (1841–1918) in 1900.

Keywords

Gastropoda, Neritimorpha, ‘Pulmonata’, range extension, snails, type specimens.