Tornatellina novoseelandica Küster, 1852

Pl. 12, fig. A

Küster, (1841–1855) 1852. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz, 1 (15): 149, pl. 18, figs. 10, 11.

Type material: Description based on one or more specimens in the Cuming collection; type material not found in NHMUK collections in 2018, whereabouts unknown .

Type locality: ‘Neuseeland’ (Küster 1852: 150).

Previous illustrations of type material: Küster (1852 [in 1841–1855]: pl. 18, figs. 10, 11 [reproduced here in pl. 12, fig. A]).

Remarks: Tornatellina novoseelandica Küster, 1852 and Tornatellina novoseelandica Pfeiffer, 1853, are based on the same type material, which was sent to H. Cuming by 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 Küster 1852 [in 1841-1855]: 149; Pfeiffer 1853a: 524), but publication was delayed until 1854 (Pfeiffer 1854b: 149), and was pre-empted by Küster (1852 [in 1841-1855]: 149). According to Pfeiffer, this is the species that Gray (1850: 167) listed as Elasmatina reclusiana (not of Petit 1843). Authorship of Tornatellina novoseelandica has generally been attributed to Pfeiffer (e.g., Hector 1873: 21; Hutton 1880: 14; Suter 1913b: 769; Pilsbry & Cooke 1915 [in 1914–1916]: 181; Cooke & Kondo 1961: 169; Climo 1973: 579; Powell 1979: 302; Spencer et al., 2009: 214), but Küster’s name has priority [see Coan et al. 2012 for collation of publication dates of volume 1 (15) of Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz]. Tornatellina novoseelandica Küster, 1852 [= Tornatellina novoseelandica Pfeiffer, 1853] is the type species of Tornatellinops Pilsbry & Cooke, 1915, by original designation.

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

Distribution: New Zealand; Three Kings Islands, North Island, northernmost South Island, Chatham Islands (Climo 1973 —in Lamellidea; Wallace 1977; Powell 1979).