Tornatellinops novoseelandica, Kuster, 1852

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 : 53

Pupa novoseelandica Küster, 1852

Pl. 6, fig. C

Küster, (1841–1855) 1852. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz, 1 (15): 135, pl. 17, figs. 18, 19.

Type material: Syntypes, NHMUK 1974046 (1) , NHMUK 1974047 (3) (dry shell material) ; ex Museum Cuming (Acc. no. 1829).

Label details: ‘N.Z’.

Type locality: ‘Neuseeland’ (Küster 1852 [in 1841–1855]: 136).

Previous illustrations of type material: Küster (1852 [in 1841–1855]: pl. 17, figs. 18, 19), Reeve (1875: pl. 14, fig. 126).

Remarks: Pupa novoseelandica Küster, 1852 and P. novoseelandica Pfeiffer, 1853 , are based on the same type material, which H. Cuming had obtained from the Australian-based naturalist Frederick Strange. Pfeiffer evidently intended to publish the original description of this species in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London issue for 1851 (see Pfeiffer, 1853a: 531; Küster, 1852 [in 1841–1855]: 135), but publication was delayed until 1854 ( Pfeiffer 1854b: 149), and was pre-empted by Küster (1852 [in 1841–1855]: 135). Authorship of Pupa novoseelandica has generally been attributed to Pfeiffer (e.g., Hector, 1873: 22; Hutton, 1880: 15; Suter, 1913b: 697; Climo, 1970a: 333; Powell, 1979: 311; Spencer et al., 2009: 216), but Küster (1852) has priority. Pupa novoseelandica Küster, 1852 [= Pupa novoseelandica Pfeiffer, 1853 ] is the type species of Phenacharopa Pilsbry, 1893 , by original designation.

Taxonomy: Phenacharopa novoseelandica (Küster, 1852) n. comb. is accepted here as an available valid name. Pupa novoseelandica Pfeiffer, 1853 is a junior primary homonym and an objective junior synonym.

Distribution: New Zealand; eastern and northeastern North Island, and a few records from the north Canterbury coast, South Island ( Suter 1913b; Powell 1979; Climo 1993).