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![Cover image: Powelliphanta gilliesi montana (Powell, 1936) MA70599. Photograph taken by Peter Quin.]()
Cover image: Powelliphanta gilliesi montana (Powell, 1936) MA70599. Photograph taken by Peter Quin.
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Abstract
The Marine Department of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira has 1693 molluscan primary types (holotypes, syntypes, lectotypes, neotypes) and a further 1698 molluscan secondary type lots (paratypes, paralectotypes, iconotypes) in its collections. Most of this material consists of marine and terrestrial species and subspecies from the Aotearoa New Zealand region (2983 lots, 1989 species and subspecies), but there are also many lots from other countries and regions including, in particular, Australia (208 lots, 124 species) and Cuba (58 lots, 56 species). The type status for the following taxa is changed to lectotype in accordance with Art. 74 ICZN: Nucula certisinus Finlay, 1930, Hochstetteria pinctada Finlay, 1930, Cuna kaawa Laws, 1936, Benthocardiella hamatadens Powell, 1930, Subonoba oliveri Powell, 1955, Clathurella hamiltoni F.W. Hutton, 1885, Endodonta (Charopa) transenna Suter, 1904, Endodonta (Charopa) vortex microrhina Suter, 1909, Endodonta (Ptychodon) ureweraensis Suter, 1899, Helix microundulata Suter, 1890, Helix pseudoleiodon Suter, 1890, Helix wairarapa Suter, 1890. The type status for Haminea cingulata P. Marshall, 1917 is changed from lectotype to neotype. Previously unpublished iconotypes are included for each of the following six taxa: Doris? flabellifera Cheeseman, 1881, Doris luctuosa Cheeseman, 1882, Doris rubicunda Cheeseman, 1881, Chromodoris amoena Cheeseman, 1886, Chromodoris aureomarginata Cheeseman, 1881 and Doridopsis citrina Cheeseman, 1881. The type status for Scissurella apudornata Laws, 1935 and Sphaerostoma flemingi Powell, 1937 are changed from holotype to iconotype. A detailed account is provided for the provenance of the only known specimens, the holotype and paratype, of Scutellastra tucopiana Powell, 1925.
Acknowledgments
This work is dedicated to Alan Beu (1942–2023) and Margaret Morley (1937–2016). Both were inspiring and generous mentors.
This catalogue has been a long time in the making and has had input from many people. It was originally started in 1991 by the then staff and volunteers of Auckland Museum’s Marine Department. I would like to acknowledge: Steve O’Shea and Cecilia Street for starting the cataloguing, Glenys Stace and Nick de Carteret for continuing with this and preparing early drafts, Bruce Hayward for initiating this work and obtaining Lottery funding (1992, 1993), Carol Diebel for funding and support to continue the work in the early 2000s, and Richard Willan for support and feedback on the earliest manuscripts.
I picked up the work after a gap of at least 10 years and would like to thank the following people who have helped me in a variety of ways: Fred Brook, Tom Darragh, John Early, Hugh Grenfell, Bruce Hayward, Neville Hudson, Bruce Marshall, Paul Scofield and the late Alan Beu for help in resolving the type status of some specimens; Hamish Spencer in resolving other taxonomic issues; Tom Darragh for checking my entries for the Australian Cenozic types and some illuminating discussions on their provenance; Alan Beu and Ewan Fordyce in relocating some missing types; John Simes for helping with locality information; Zoe Richardson for sourcing a variety of historical images; Courtney Black for tracking down literature; for providing registration numbers for types held at their respective institutions: Matthew Shaw, Cor Vink and Paul Scofield at Canterbury Museum, Marianna Terezow at GNS Science, Bruce Marshall and Kerry Walton at NMNZ, Emma Bruns at Otago Museum, Shirley Sorokin at SAM, Tom Schiøtte at NHMD, Francisco Javier de Andres Cobeta at MNCN, Mandy Reid and Frank Koehler at AMS. Sheree Boyd is due a special thank you for her help with locating original descriptions and cleaning up many of our electronic records. Peter Quin spent many hours creating extraordinary and beautiful high-resolution images of primary types, many of which were previously unfigured species, and Hugh Grenfell put the latter together as plates for this monograph.
The initial work was started with Lottery Science grants (October 1992, September 1993). Some of the later work was supported by New Zealand Lotteries Environment and Heritage Committee grants 253353 and 284872. The imaging work was supported by Lotteries Environment and Heritage Committee grant 310828.
I am very grateful to Fred Brook, Brian Gill, Hugh Grenfell, Bruce Hayward, Richard Willan and the late Alan Beu for helpful comments at later stages of the manuscripts.
This work would not have been possible but for the support I received throughout from colleagues, such as Severine Hannam, Eva Fernandez, Martin Collett, Elizabeth Lorimer, Courtney Black, Madison Pine, Rebecca Bray and Tom Trnski.
A special thank you to John Early and Louise Furey for their support and, above all, their patience. Thanks also to Amy Stewart for organising the final stages, and to Teresa McIntyre for carrying out the mammoth task of proofreading. The final result is the better for it. The design layout and print was provided by Hamish Macdonald.
My apologies to anyone I have forgotten through my oversight.
It is also appropriate to acknowledge here the enormous collective scientific effort represented by World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), MolluscaBase and Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Over the 10 year gestation of this work these databases have become authoritative sources for molluscan nomenclature and literature. Their shared vision to put taxonomic science in the public domain has contributed immeasurably to this monograph.
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