Patula tapirina Hutton, Dunedin 1882
Creators: name: Brook, Fred J.
name: Kennedy, Martyn
name: King, Tania M.
name: Ridden, Johnathon
name: Shaw, Matthew D.
name: Spencer, Hamish G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Charopidae
Patula
Patula tapirina

description: Patula tapirina Hutton, 1882
Pl. 4, fig. F
Hutton, 1882. The New Zealand Journal of Science, 1: 281.
Type material. Lectotype (designated here), CMNZ M390.9, and paralectotypes, CMNZ 390 (12), CMNZ M1061 [ex ZS 757] (1), CMNZ M12775 [ex M1061] (1) (dry shells). The molluscan collection at CMNZ has radula fragments mounted on a glass slide with the label details ‘ Patula tapirina, Dunedin, XIV p. 150 (coma)’, in Hutton’s handwriting (i.e., CMNZ 2017.17.34–2017.17.35), which is probably primary type material (see description of radula by Hutton 1883d: 134).
Label details. M390—‘87. Patula tapirina Hutton, Dunedin, Type’, pillbox label in Hutton’s handwriting.
CMNZ molluscan catalogue details. M1061—‘ Endodonta tapirina Hutton, Dunedin (old number ZS 757)’
Type locality. ‘Dunedin’ (Hutton, 1882p: 281, 1883d: 134).
Previous illustrations of type material. Jaw and radula teeth illustrated by Hutton (1882h: pl. 3, figs. A, L, pl. 4, fig. G), which was incorrectly identified as Patula coma Gray (see Hutton 1883d: 134), possibly from the type material of Patula tapirina Hutton, 1882.
Remarks. The type series of Patula tapirina was collected by Hutton himself (Hutton (1884c: 193). He submitted a description of this species to the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute issue for 1882, but publication was delayed until May 1883 (Hutton 1883d: 134), and was pre-empted by a brief description in an account of a meeting of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury (Hutton 1882p: 281). A shell from the type series (lectotype) is illustrated here for the first time in pl. 4, fig. F. There has been confusion over the identity and distribution of P. tapirina. This species was incorrectly identified as Patula coma (Gray, 1843) by Hutton (1882h: 150 —see Hutton 1883d: 134). Hutton (1884c: 193), Hedley & Suter (1893: 656) and Suter (1894b: 268, 1913: 724) interpreted P. tapirina as having a wide distribution in New Zealand, from Auckland, in the North Island, to Rakiura/ Stewart Island. However, Climo (1969: 227, fig. 13D) correctly noted that it was restricted to southern New Zealand and referred Suter’s North Island records to Patula colensoi Suter, 1890.
Current taxonomy. Cavellia tapirina (Hutton, 1882) — Goulstone (1991: 15); Spencer & Willan (1996: 39), Spencer et al. (2009: 215).
Distribution. New Zealand; southern and southeastern South Island, from south Canterbury to southern Fiordland, and Whenua Hou/Codfish Island, Rakiura and nearshore islands, Big South Cape Island (Climo 1969: 227, fig. 13D; AIM and NMNZ collection records).
description: Published as part of Brook, Fred J., Kennedy, Martyn, King, Tania M., Ridden, Johnathon, Shaw, Matthew D. & Spencer, Hamish G., 2020, Catalogue of New Zealand land, freshwater and estuarine molluscan taxa named by Frederick Wollaston Hutton between 1879 and 1904, pp. 1-73 in Zootaxa 4865 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4865.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4428428