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Nesovitrea pauxilla (A. Gould, 1852)
1375732 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1375732)
accepted
Species
Helix pauxillus A. Gould, 1852 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Helix pusillus A. Gould, 1846 · unaccepted > junior homonym (of Helix pusilla Vallot, 1803,...)
of Helix pusilla Vallot, 1803, and several others; Helix pauxillus is a replacement name
Hyalinia baldwini Ancey, 1889 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrea lanaiensis Sykes, 1897 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vitrea pauxillus (A. Gould, 1852) · unaccepted > superseded combination
(of Helix pauxillus A. Gould, 1852) Gould, A. A. (1852). Mollusca and shells. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes. Boston.</em> 12: 1-510; atlas 1856: 1-16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10991152
page(s): 40-41 [details]
page(s): 40-41 [details]
Type locality contained in Maui Island
type locality contained in Maui Island [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nesovitrea pauxilla (A. Gould, 1852). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1375732 on 2025-09-11
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original description
(of Helix pauxillus A. Gould, 1852) Gould, A. A. (1852). Mollusca and shells. <em>In: United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes. Boston.</em> 12: 1-510; atlas 1856: 1-16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10991152
page(s): 40-41 [details]
original description (of Helix pusillus A. Gould, 1846) Gould, A. A. (1846). Descriptions of new shells, collected by the United States Exploring Expedition. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 141-145, 148-152 [July]; 153-156, 159-162, 165-167 [August]; 170-173, 175-176 [September]; 177-179, 180-184, 185-187, 190-192 [November]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9490825
page(s): 171 [details]
original description (of Vitrea lanaiensis Sykes, 1897) Sykes, E. R. (1897). Preliminary diagnoses of new species of non-marine Mollusca from the Hawaiian Islands. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 2: 298-299., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15036725
page(s): 298-299; note: As Vitrea (?) lanaiensis [details]
original description (of Hyalinia baldwini Ancey, 1889) Ancey, C. F. (1889). Étude sur la faune malacologique des îles Sandwich. <em>Bulletins de la Société Malacologique de France.</em> 6: 171-258., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16141453
page(s): 192-193 [details]
basis of record Yeung, N. W., Cowie, R. H., Hayes, K. A. & Strong, E. E. (2017). Type specimens of Hawaiian land snails in the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, with lectotype designations. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 647: 1-34.
page(s): 28 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Cowie, R. H., Evenhuis, N. L. & Christensen, C. C. (1995). <i>Catalog of the native land and freshwater molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands</i>. vi + 248 pp. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers.
page(s): 165 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 40-41 [details]
original description (of Helix pusillus A. Gould, 1846) Gould, A. A. (1846). Descriptions of new shells, collected by the United States Exploring Expedition. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 141-145, 148-152 [July]; 153-156, 159-162, 165-167 [August]; 170-173, 175-176 [September]; 177-179, 180-184, 185-187, 190-192 [November]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9490825
page(s): 171 [details]
original description (of Vitrea lanaiensis Sykes, 1897) Sykes, E. R. (1897). Preliminary diagnoses of new species of non-marine Mollusca from the Hawaiian Islands. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 2: 298-299., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15036725
page(s): 298-299; note: As Vitrea (?) lanaiensis [details]
original description (of Hyalinia baldwini Ancey, 1889) Ancey, C. F. (1889). Étude sur la faune malacologique des îles Sandwich. <em>Bulletins de la Société Malacologique de France.</em> 6: 171-258., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16141453
page(s): 192-193 [details]
basis of record Yeung, N. W., Cowie, R. H., Hayes, K. A. & Strong, E. E. (2017). Type specimens of Hawaiian land snails in the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, with lectotype designations. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 647: 1-34.
page(s): 28 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cowie, R. H., Evenhuis, N. L. & Christensen, C. C. (1995). <i>Catalog of the native land and freshwater molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands</i>. vi + 248 pp. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers.
page(s): 165 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To GB Mollusca Types (Hyalinia baldwini Ancey & Sykes in Ancey, 1889; Syntype(s); NMW.1955.158.24206) (from synonym Hyalinia baldwini Ancey, 1889)
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
