Type material of land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) described from New Zealand by taxonomists in Europe and North America between 1830 and 1934, and the history of research on the New Zealand land snail fauna from 1824 to 1917
Author
Brook, Fred J.
Author
Ablett, Jonathan D.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-11-14
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Tornatellina kermadecensis
Pilsbry & Cooke, 1915
Pl. 1, fig. F; Pl. 12, fig. C1, 2
Pilsbry & Cooke, (
1914–1916
) 1915. Manual of Conchology. Second series:
Pulmonata
, 23: 149, pl. 39, figs. 1–5.
Type material:
Holotype
whereabouts not known;
paratypes
(2),
ANSP 8316
(dry shell material).
Label details:
‘Sunday I., Kermadec Islands, Tom Iredale.’
Type
locality:
‘Kermadec Is.: Sunday Island’ (Pilsbry & Cooke 1915 [in
1914–1916
]: 149).
Previous illustrations of
type
material:
Pilsbry & Cooke (1915 [in
1914–1916
]: pl.39, figs. 1–5).
Remarks:
The type material was collected on Raoul Island in 1908 by Tom Iredale (
Iredale 1913
). According to Pilsbry & Cooke (1915 [in
1914–1916
]: 149), the ‘type’ of
Tornatellina kermadecensis
was to be sent to
Canterbury
Museum,
New Zealand
(CMNZ), and a ‘paratype’ retained at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP), but there is no record of a type in the CMNZ collection (e.g.,
Freeman
et al
. 1997
). There are currently two
paratypes
of
T
.
kermadecensis
at ANSP, but whether or not one of these is the missing
holotype
has not been determined. A specimen illustrated by Pilsbry & Cooke (1915 [in
1914–1916
]: pl. 39, figs. 1–5) was presumably the
holotype
, albeit not identified as such. Pilsbry & Cooke’s hand-drawn illustrations are reproduced here in pl. 12, fig. C, along with a photograph of a
paratype
in pl. 1, fig. F.
Current Taxonomy:
Treated as a junior subjective synonym of
Tubuaia raoulensis
(Pilsbry & Cooke, 1915)
by
Cooke & Kondo (1961: 156)
, acting as First Revisers, both names having been published on the same date.