Puncturella capensis Thiele 1919
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Puncturella capensis Thiele, 1919
Puncturella noachina (non Linnaeus, 1771)—G.B. Sowerby (III), 1903: 231. E.A. Smith, 1906: 57. Barnard, 1963a: 295. Kensley, 1973: 32, fig. 49.
Puncturella fastigiata (non A. Adams, 1853)— Martens, 1904: 50. E.A. Smith, 1906: 57.
Puncturella capensis Thiele, 1919 in 1912–1919: 164, pl. 19, figs 15, 16. Kilburn, 1978: 448, pl. 9a, b. Herbert & Kilburn, 1987: 16, figs 57–65. Type loc.: Valdivia St’n 114, ‘Simonsbucht’ [Simonstown, False Bay], 70 m; holotype in ZMB.
Distribution. Pondoland (off Waterfall Bluff) to False Bay; 70–550 m (living 300–540 m).
Notes. There is a possibility that this taxon is synonymous with Puncturella analoga Martens, 1902, which in turn may be a synonym of P. conica (d’Orbigny, 1841) and that there is a single circum-Antarctic species.
Pupillaea Gray, 1835. Type species (m.): Fissurella aperta G.B. Sowerby (I), 1825.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Fissurellidae
- Genus
- Puncturella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepetellida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Thiele
- Species
- capensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Puncturella capensis Thiele, 1919 sec. Herbert, 2015
References
- Smith, E. A. (1906) On South African marine Mollusca, with descriptions of new species. Annals of the Natal Museum, 1, 19 - 71.
- Barnard, K. H. (1963 a) Contributions to the knowledge of South African marine Mollusca. Part IV. Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata: Rhipidoglossa, Docoglossa. Tectibranchiata. Polyplacophora. Solenogastres. Scaphopoda. Annals of the South African Museum, 47, 201 - 360.
- Adams, A. (1853) Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gasteropodous Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 19 (1851), 150 - 192. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1851. tb 01153. x
- Martens, E. von (1904) [dated 1903]. Die beschalten Gastropoden der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 1898 - 1899. A.
- Kilburn, R. N. (1978) The Emarginulinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fissurellidae) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum, 23, 431 - 453.
- Martens, E. von (1902) Einige neue Arten von Meer-Conchylien aus den Sammlungen der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition unter der Leitung von Prof. Carl Chun 1898 - 99. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1902, 237 - 244.
- Sowerby, G. B. (I) (1825) A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville, arranged according to the Lamarckian conchological system; together with an appendix containing descriptions of many new species. G. B. Sowerby, London, vii + 92 pp., appendix xxxiv pp., 9 pls.