Tricolia capensis Dunker 1846
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Tricolia capensis (Dunker, 1846)
Phasianella capensis Dunker, 1846: 110. Krauss, 1848: 104, pl. 6, fig. 5. Bartsch, 1915: 145. Type loc.: ‘ Prom. bon. spei ’ [Cape of Good Hope]; 30 syntypes in ZMB (108.794).
Phasianella africana Bartsch, 1915: 145, pl. 10, fig. 2. Turton, 1932: 174, no. 1235. Type loc.: Port Alfred, E. Cape; holotype in USNM (186870).
Phasianella rufanensis Turton, 1932: 174, pl. 41, no. 1232. Type loc.: Port Alfred, E. Cape; holotype in OXUM (M002778).
Phasianella rufanensis adjacens Turton, 1932: 174, pl. 41, no. 1233. Type loc.: Port Alfred, E. Cape; holotype in OXUM (M002779).
Phasianella farquhari Turton, 1932: 174, pl. 41, no. 1234. Type loc.: Port Alfred, E. Cape; holotype in OXUM (M002780).
Tricolia capensis — Grindley & Kensley, 1966: 11. Day, 1969: 158 (in part). Kensley, 1973: 52, fig. 143. Kensley, 1977: 190, fig. 1 (Pliocene). Kensley & Penrith, 1980: 211. Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 42 (in part, includes T. kochii (Philippi, 1848)), pl. 9, fig. 7b [not 7a = Tricolia kochii]. Robertson, 1985: 21. Branch et al., 2010: 180, fig. 79.8, 79.8a. Nangammbi, 2010: 105, figs 2.24–2.27. Marais, 2011: 51. Nangammbi et al. in press.
Tricolia africana — Nangammbi, 2010: 98, figs 2.20–2.23. Nangammbi et al. in press (= capensis).
Not Tricolia capensis —Steyn & Lussi,1998: 28, fig. 93 [= Tricolia kochii (Philippi, 1848)].
Not Phasianella capensis — Deshayes, 1863: 76. Viader, 1937: 54 [?= Phasianella solida Born, 1878].
Distribution. Southern and Atlantic Cape coast, from southern Transkei (Qora River) to the Namibia-Angola border (Kensley & Penrith 1980); intertidal.
Notes. Molecular studies have shown that, although morphologically distinct, T. africana and T. capensis cannot be distinguished from a genetic perspective (Nangammbi et al. in press). In all probability they are warmtemperate (africana) and cold-temperate (capensis) ecomorphs of a single species. Shells of somewhat intermediate appearance occur on either side of Cape Agulhas. Records from the Mascarene Islands and Japan were based on misidentified and mislocalised material respectively (Robertson 1985).
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- Family
- Phasianellidae
- Genus
- Tricolia
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- Animalia
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- Trochida
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- Mollusca
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- Dunker
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- capensis
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- Tricolia capensis Dunker, 1846 sec. Herbert, 2015
References
- Dunker, W. (1846) Diagnoses molluscorum novorum. Zeitschrift fur Malakozoologie, 3, 108 - 112.
- Krauss, F. (1848) Die sudafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Kap- und Natallandes und zur geographischen Verbreitung derselben, mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart, ii + 140 pp., 6 pls.
- Bartsch, P. (1915) Report on the Turton collection of South African marine mollusks with additional notes on other South African shells contained in the United States National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 91, i - xii, 1 - 305, pls. 1 - 54. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.91. i
- Turton, W. H. (1932) The marine shells of Port Alfred, South Africa. Oxford University Press, London, xvi + 331 pp., 70 pls.
- Grindley, J. R. & Kensley, B. F. (1966) Benthonic marine fauna obtained off the Orange River mouth by the diamond dredger Emerson-K. Cimbebasia, 16, 3 - 14.
- Day, J. H. (1969) A Guide to Marine Life on South African Shores. Balkema, Cape Town, 300 pp.
- Kensley, B. (1977) A second assemblage of Pliocene invertebrate fossils from Langebaanweg, Cape. Annals of the South African Museum, 72, 189 - 210.
- Kensley, B. & Penrith, M. - L. (1980) The constitution of the fauna of rocky intertidal shores of South West Africa. Part III. The north coast from False Cape Frio to the Kunene River. Cimbebasia, Series A, 5, 201 - 214.
- Kilburn, R. N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan, Johannesburg, 249 pp., 46 pls.
- Philippi, R. A. (1848). Testaceorum novorum centuria. Zeitschrift fur Malakozoologie, 5 (February 1848), 17 - 27.
- Robertson, R. (1985) Archaeogastropod biology and the systematics of the genus Tricolia (Trochacea: Tricoliidae) in the Indo- West-Pacific. Monographs of marine Mollusca, 3, 1 - 103.
- Branch, G. M., Griffiths, C. L., Branch, M. L. & Beckley, L. E. (2010) Two Oceans. A Guide to the Marine Life of Southern Africa. Revised Edition. David Philip, Cape Town, 456 pp.
- Nangammbi, T. C. (2010) Systematics of the Phasianelloidea in southern Africa (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Ph. D. thesis, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 328 pp.
- Marais, A. (2011) Field Guide to South African Seashells: Cape Region. Centre for Molluscan Studies, Groenkloof, 104 pp.
- Deshayes, M. G. P. (1863) Catalogue des mollusques de l'ile de la Reunion (Bourbon). In: Maillard, L. (Ed.), Notes sur l'ile de la Reunion. Dentu, Editeur, Paris, pp. 1 - 144, pls. 1 - 14.
- Viader, R. (1937) Revised catalogue of the testaceous Mollusca of Mauritius and its dependencies. Mauritius Institute Bulletin, 1, i - xiii + 1 - 111, plus map.