Realia turriculata Pfeiffer, 1855

Brook, Fred J. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2019, 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, Zootaxa 4697 (1), pp. 1-117 : 19-20

Realia turriculata Pfeiffer, 1855

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Pfeiffer, 1855. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 22 (1854): 304.

Type material: Syntypes (3), NHMUK 1954.4.13.1.2–3 (dry shell material); ex Museum Cuming (Acc. no. 1829) .

Label details: ‘ Realia turriculata Pfr’—in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. ‘New Zealand’.

Type locality: ‘New Zealand’ ( Pfeiffer, 1855c: 304).

Previous illustrations of type material: Powell (1954: pl. 46, fig. 21).

Remarks: Pfeiffer (1855) originally listed Realia turriculata from ‘New Zealand’, and later recorded it from ‘Kakepuku’, in the Waikato region ( Pfeiffer 1861: 150; 1865: 171), based on specimens that had been collected at that locality by Ferdinand von Hochstetter in 1859 (see Hochstetter 1867: 318). Powell (1954: 288) misinterpreted Pfeiffer’s comments as indicating that Mount Kakepuku was the type locality and observed that shells from that locality differed morphologically from the type specimens of R. turriculata . He noted that the latter were morpho- logically similar to shells in some eastern Northland populations, and nominated ‘Mair Park, Whangarei’ as the type locality.

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Liarea turriculata (Pfeiffer, 1855) by Powell (1954: 288, 1979: 81) and Spencer et al. (2009: 203).

Distribution: New Zealand; northern North Island & Great Barrier Island ( Powell 1954).