Martínez–Ortí, A. & Uribe, F., 2008. Molluscan type specimens in the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona and the Natural History Museum of Valencia. Arxius de Miscel·lània Zooḷgica, vol. 6

Pulmonata, Stylommatophora, Helicoidea, Helicidae, Helicinae

Helix beckeri Kobelt, 1900 †

Kobelt, W., 1900. Subfossile Helices aus Valencia. Nachrichtsblatt Malakozoologisehen Gesellschaft, 1–2: 185–186.
Type locality: "La Albufera de Valencia". Revision of labels of type specimens indicates the type locality is restricted to: "El barranco de Carraixet".
Toponymic note and update: gulley in Carraixet, an inhabited place in the municipality of Alboraia, València, Spain.
Types
Paralectotypes: Museu Valencià d’Hisṭria Natural, MVHN 1479 (type loc., 2 shells, ex Boscá coll.) + Museu de Ciències Naturals (Zoologia) de Barcelona, MZB 80–6307 (Alboraya [Alboraia] 3 shells)..

MVHN 1479 MVHN 1479 MVHN 1479 MZB 80–6307

Types in other museums
Lectotype: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, 4936.
Paralectotypes: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, 15.05/23421 (13 paralectotypes, Azpetia coll. ex Boscá coll.).
Current name: Helix beckeri is a junior synonym of Pseudotachea splendida (Draparnaud, 1801).
Martínez–Ortí, A., 1999. Moluscos terrestres testáceos de la Comunidad Valenciana. Unpublished Ph. D. Thesis, Universitat de València. 743 pp. [p. 638].
Robles, F. & Martínez–Ortí, A., 2005. The taxonomical clarification of two Iberian subfossil species: Helix beckeri Kobelt 100 (F. Helicidae) and Helix (Cartusiana) albuferae Kobelt 1900 (F. Hygromiidae). Abstracts IV Int. Congress of the European Malacological Societies, Naples 2005. Notiziario SIM, 23(5–8): 92 pp [p. 85].
† Fossil species.