Kermia barnardi ( Brazier 1876 )

Li, Baoquan & Li, Xinzheng, 2014, Report on the Raphitomidae Bellardi, 1875 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the China Seas, Journal of Natural History 48 (17), pp. 999-1025 : 1014

Kermia barnardi ( Brazier 1876)

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Clathurella barnardi Brazier, 1876, p. 157 . Type loc. Barnard Is., Australia.

Pseudodaphnella barnardi – Hedley, 1922, p. 345, pl. 55, fig. 178. – Powell, 1966, p. 128. – Zhang, 1995, p. 288, pl. 4, fig. 12.

Philbertia (Kermia) barnardi – Cernohorsky, 1978, p. 161, pl. 57, fig. 11.

Kermia barnardi – Richard, 1985. – Higo et al. 1999, p. 324, nr. G3817. – Kantor and Taylor, 2002, p. 92, figs 10, 20I.

Pseudodaphnella barnardi – Chang, 2001, p. 91, fig. 101b.

Material examined

SCS. 1 spec, CN 58M-152, Dazhou Island (Hainan), 29 March 1958 .

Distribution

Taiwan, Hainan; Japan, Australia.

Remarks

This species resembles Kermia pustulosa (De Folin, 1867) in shell profile and sculpture, but differs from the latter in shell colour. In K. barnardi , the colour alternates brownish purple with distinct white axial nodules where the spiral cords cross the axial ribs, and fifth spiral ribs in body whorl are white; while that of K. pustulosa is uniformly yellowish brown, and at the fourth spiral on the last whorl the colour is white.