Athoracophorus marmoratus Simroth 1889

• Main Authors: Brook, Fred J., Ablett, Jonathan D.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Stylommatophora; Athoracophoridae; Athoracophorus; Athoracophorus marmoratus; Auckland Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5933926; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/437587C2FFD36516FF02EA7AD5EE11BA

Athoracophorus marmoratus Simroth, 1889 Simroth, 1889. Nova acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum, 54: 71, pl. 4, figs. 3–10. Type material: Syntype (1), ZMB MOLL30217 (in alcohol) (Kilias 1974: 350). Label details: ‘ New Zealand, Auckland Isl., leg.: Krone’. Type locality: ‘Auklandinsel’ (Simroth 1889: 70). Previous illustrations of type material: Simroth (1889: pl. 4, figs. 3–10). Remarks: The description of Athoracophorus marmoratus was based on material collected in 1874 by the naturalist and photographer Herman Krone, during a German expedition to the Auckland Islands to observe a transit of Venus. Simroth (1889: 79) noted that E. von Martens provided the species name, but Simroth himself was responsible for the nomenclatural act of publishing both the name and description (see Barker 2018: 229). Athoracophorus ( Pseudaneitea ) martensi Suter, 1909 is an unnecessary nom. nov. for A. marmoratus Simroth, 1889, non Konophora marmorea Hutton, 1879 (Powell 1979: 301; Barker 2018: 229). Athoracophorus marmoratus Simroth was listed as Athoracophorus martensi by Suter (1913b: 800) and Grimpe & Hoffman (1925: 465), Reflectopallium martensi by Burton (1963: 57), R. marmoratum by Powell (1979: 301, fig. 72.7), and Pseudaneitea martensi by Burton (1982: 63). Athoracophorus marmoratus was originally designated as the type species of subgenus Athoracophorus ( Amphikonophora ) Suter, 1897, by monotypy, though the accompanying description by Suter (1897a: 256–257) was based on another species that he subsequently named Athoracophorus ( Amphikonophora ) giganteus Suter, 1909. The latter was listed as the type species of Amphiconophora [emended spelling] by Suter (1913b: 805), and selected by Barker (2018: 215) as the type species of Amphikonophora Suter, 1897 under ICZN Article 70.3.2. Current Taxonomy: Listed as Pseudaneitea marmorata (Simroth, 1889) by Spencer et al . (2009: 215) and Barker (2018: 229). Distribution: Auckland and Macquarie islands (Simroth 1889; Suter 1909a, ...