Realia turriculata Pfeiffer, 1855

Pl. 1, fig. D

Pfeiffer, 1855. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 22 (1854): 304.

Type material: Syntypes (3), NHMUK 1954.4.13.1.2–3 (dry shell material); ex Museum Cuming (Acc. no. 1829) .

Label details: ‘ Realia turriculata Pfr’—in Pfeiffer’s handwriting. ‘New Zealand’.

Type locality: ‘New Zealand’ (Pfeiffer, 1855c: 304).

Previous illustrations of type material: Powell (1954: pl. 46, fig. 21).

Remarks: Pfeiffer (1855) originally listed Realia turriculata from ‘New Zealand’, and later recorded it from ‘Kakepuku’, in the Waikato region (Pfeiffer 1861: 150; 1865: 171), based on specimens that had been collected at that locality by Ferdinand von Hochstetter in 1859 (see Hochstetter 1867: 318). Powell (1954: 288) misinterpreted Pfeiffer’s comments as indicating that Mount Kakepuku was the type locality and observed that shells from that locality differed morphologically from the type specimens of R. turriculata . He noted that the latter were morpho- logically similar to shells in some eastern Northland populations, and nominated ‘Mair Park, Whangarei’ as the type locality.

Current Taxonomy: Listed as Liarea turriculata (Pfeiffer, 1855) by Powell (1954: 288, 1979: 81) and Spencer et al. (2009: 203).

Distribution: New Zealand; northern North Island & Great Barrier Island (Powell 1954).