Report on the Raphitomidae Bellardi, 1875 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the China Seas Author Li, Baoquan Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Yantai, PR China; Author Li, Xinzheng Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, PR China text Journal of Natural History 2014 2014-03-10 48 17 999 1025 journal article 21046 10.1080/00222933.2013.861939 31283f24-de4e-4e42-a292-6c43c8107a6f 1464-5262 4006801 Kermia barnardi ( Brazier 1876 ) ( Figure 3A ) Clathurella barnardi Brazier, 1876 , p. 157 . Type loc. Barnard Is. , Australia . Pseudodaphnella barnardi – Hedley, 1922 , p. 345, pl. 55, fig. 178. – Powell, 1966 , p. 128. – Zhang, 1995 , p. 288, pl. 4, fig. 12. Philbertia (Kermia) barnardi – Cernohorsky, 1978 , p. 161, pl. 57, fig. 11. Kermia barnardi – Richard, 1985 . – Higo et al. 1999 , p. 324, nr. G3817. – Kantor and Taylor, 2002 , p. 92, figs 10, 20I. Pseudodaphnella barnardi – Chang, 2001 , p. 91, fig. 101b. Material examined SCS. 1 spec , CN 58M-152, Dazhou Island ( Hainan ), 29 March 1958 . Distribution Taiwan , Hainan; Japan , Australia . Remarks This species resembles Kermia pustulosa (De Folin, 1867) in shell profile and sculpture, but differs from the latter in shell colour. In K. barnardi , the colour alternates brownish purple with distinct white axial nodules where the spiral cords cross the axial ribs, and fifth spiral ribs in body whorl are white; while that of K. pustulosa is uniformly yellowish brown, and at the fourth spiral on the last whorl the colour is white.