Tornatellina (Tornatellinops) raoulensis 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 : 22

Tornatellina (Tornatellinops) raoulensis Pilsbry & Cooke, 1915

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

Pilsbry & Cooke, (1914–1916) 1915. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata , 23: 180, pl. 39, figs. 9–11.

Type material: Holotype whereabouts not known; paratypes, ANSP 8313 (2), BPBM 189797 (1) [ex ANSP 8313 ] (dry shell material).

Label details: ‘Sunday Island, Kermadecs, Tom Iredale.’

Type locality: ‘Kermadec Is.: Sunday (Raoul) Island’ (Pilsbry & Cooke 1915 [in 1914–1916]: 180).

Previous illustrations of type material: Pilsbry & Cooke (1915 [in 1914–1916]: pl. 39, figs. 9–11).

Remarks: The type material was collected on Raoul Island in 1908 by Tom Iredale ( Iredale 1913). According to Pilsbry & Cooke (1915 [in 1914–1916]: 180), the ‘type’ of Tornatellina (Tornatellinops) raoulensis was to be sent to Canterbury Museum, New Zealand (CMNZ), and a ‘paratype’ retained at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP), but there is no record of a type in the CMNZ collection (e.g., Freeman et al. 1997). There are currently two paratypes of T. raoulensis at ANSP, but whether or not one of these is the missing holotype has not been determined. A specimen illustrated by Pilsbry & Cooke (1915 [in 1914–1916]: pl. 39, figs. 9–11) was presumably the holotype, albeit not identified as such. Pilsbry & Cooke’s hand-drawn illustrations are reproduced here in pl. 12, fig. E, along with a photograph of a paratype in pl. 1, fig. H.

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Tubuaia raoulensis (Pilsbry & Cooke, 1915) by Cooke & Kondo (1961: 156), Kondo (1962: 7) and Spencer et al. (2009: 214). Tornatellina kermadecensis Pilsbry & Cooke, 1915 was treated as a subjective junior synonym of T. raoulensis by to Cooke & Kondo (1961: 156), who acted as First Revisers.

Distribution: Kermadec Islands; Raoul Island (Pilsbry & Cooke 1915 [in 1914–1916]; Cooke & Kondo 1961; Kondo 1962).