Vitrina kermadeensis Smith, 1873

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 : 66

Vitrina kermadeensis Smith, 1873

Pl. 16, fig. E

Smith, 1873. Annals and Magazine of Natural History , Series 4, 11: 288 .

Type material: Syntypes (3), NHMUK 1873.3 .20.1 (dry shell material) .

Label details: ‘V. kermandecensis Smith, May 1873, the types, Hab. Sunday Is., Kermandec Group, 550 miles North East of New Zealand, the animal is eaten by the natives’.

Type locality: ‘ Sunday [= Raoul] Island, Kermadees (sic)’ ( Smith 1873: 288) .

Remarks: Type material of this species has not been illustrated previously. Vitrina kermadeensis Smith, 1873 and Vitrina ultima Mousson, 1873 are conspecific, according to Iredale (1913). Smith’s description was published on 1 April 1873 (see Evenhuis 2003: 26), and Mousson’s on 18 April 1873 ( Fischer-Piette 1937: 90), so Smith’s name has priority, as noted by Iredale (1913: 364). The original spelling of the species name kermadeensis was emended to kermadecensis by Iredale (1913: 371) and subsequent authors. Because the latter spelling has been in prevailing use since 1913 it qualifies as a justified emendation of the original species name (ICZN Article 33.2.3.1). Vitrina kermadecensis Smith, 1873 is the type species of Kermarion Iredale, 1944 , by original designation.

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Kermarion kermadecensis ( Smith, 1873) by Iredale (1944: 329) and Spencer et al. (2009: 216).

Distribution: Kermadec Islands; Raoul Island ( Smith 1873; Iredale 1913, 1915b; Oliver 1915).