Taxonomic rectification: Kimberleytrachia leopardus Criscione & Köhler, 2014 is a synonym of K. umbonis (Solem, 1979)

ABSTRACT

In the latest systematic revision of the camaenid land snail Kimberleytrachia from the Western Australian Kimberley region by Criscione and Köhler (2014), two species were confused. This error is corrected herein: The species described as K. leopardus Criscione & Köhler, 2014 is in fact identical with the earlier described species K. umbonis (Solem, 1979). Therefore, the name K. leopardus is a junior synonym of the latter. By contrast, material assigned to K. umbonis by Criscione and Köhler (2014) represented a yet unnamed species, which is here newly described as K. bachstenensis n. sp. Both species occur in the Prince Regent River National Park: K. umbonis occurs north of the Prince Regent River while K. bachstenensis n. sp. occurs south of it. http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:459E83CD-6C10-46AE-A73B-DDC5EB9F350A

KEYWORDS:

• Helicoidea
• new species
• shell morphology
• Stylommatophora

Acknowledgements

Fieldwork in the Prince Regent Reserve was funded by Frog Watch, Western Australian Museum. Special thanks are due to Michael Shea (AM) for producing illustrations of male genitalia and to Sue Lindsay (AM) for conducting the SEM work. We wish to thank Corey Whisson (WAM) for smoothly and promptly handling our loan requests as well as for carefully reviewing an earlier version of this manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Frank Köhler http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7150-6509

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Funding

This work has been made possible through financial support from the Australian Government [ABRS grant RF211-10 to FK].