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.