Tornatellides subperforatus kermadecensis Pilsbry & Cooke, 1915

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 : 20

Tornatellides subperforatus kermadecensis Pilsbry & Cooke, 1915

Pl. 1, fig. E; Pl. 12, fig. B

Pilsbry & Cooke, (1914–1916) 1915. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata , 23: 200, pl. 44, fig. 16.

Type material: Holotype, by monotypy, ANSP 8315 (dry shell material).

Label details: ‘Sunday Island, Kermadec Islands, Tom Iredale’.

Type locality: ‘Kermadec Is.: Sunday or Raoul Island’ (Pilsbry & Cooke (1915 [in 1914–1916]: 200).

Previous illustrations of type material: Pilsbry & Cooke (1915 [in 1914–1916]: pl. 44, fig. 16).

Remarks: The type specimen was collected on Raoul Island in 1908 by Tom Iredale ( Iredale 1913). Material collected previously from the Kermadec Islands was identified as Tornatellina subperforata Suter, 1909 by Suter (1909: 263) and Suter (1913b: 770). Pilsbry & Cooke’s (1915 [in 1914–1916]: pl. 44, fig. 6) hand-drawn illustration of Tornatellides subperforatus kermadecensis is reproduced here in pl. 12, fig. B, along with a photograph of the holotype in pl. 1, fig. E.

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Tornatellides subperforatus kermadecensis Pilsbry & Cooke, 1915 by Pilsbry & Cooke (1915 [in 1914–1916]: 200) and Spencer et al. (2009: 214).

Distribution: Kermadec Islands; Raoul Island (Pilsbry & Cooke 1915 [in 1914–1916]).