Type material of Clausiliidae door snails from Philippe Dautzenberg in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Tuhinga 31: 56-69

ABSTRACT: A small collection of Vietnamese door snails (family Clausiliidae) was recently (re)discovered in the malacological collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (NMNZ). This material previously belonged to the famed shell collection of Belgian malacologist Philippe Dautzenberg(1849–1935) and was eventually acquired by, or donated to, NMNZ in the first half of the twentieth century. The collection comprises type material of 19 taxa (species and subspecies) and possible type material of one taxon, alongside non-type material of several additional species. It is presented here in the form of an annotated and illustrated catalogue.

KEYWORDS: Philippe Dautzenberg, Arthur Bavay, Victor Demange, Louis Messager, Gastropoda, collections, pulmonates, type material, snails, Vietnam.