Kermia barnardi (Brazier 1876) (Figure 3A) 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.

Published as part of Li, Baoquan & Li, Xinzheng, 2014, Report on the Raphitomidae Bellardi, 1875 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the China Seas, pp. 999-1025 in Journal of Natural History 48 (17) on page 1014, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.861939, http://zenodo.org/record/4006801