Priotrochus obscurus subsp. obscurus Wood 1828
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Priotrochus obscurus obscurus (Wood, 1828)
Trochus obscurus Wood, 1828: 17, pl. 5, fig. 6. Krauss, 1848: 98. Type loc.: not originally given, designated Durban Bay by Herbert (1994a: 140); lectotype and three paralectotypes in NHM (NHMUK 1992178/1 and 1992178/2–4, Salvador pers. comm. vii/2015), designated by Herbert (1994a: 140, figs 1–4).
Monilea (Priotrochus) obscura — Dautzenberg, 1929: 540. Moura, 1970: 65, pl. 2, fig. 4. Moura, 1976: 46, 51, pl. 2, figs 2a, b.
Priotrochus obscurus — Barnard, 1963a: 250, figs 13 left, 14d. Kensley, 1973: 42, fig. 95. Herbert, 1988b: 262, pls. 1, 2 (chresonymy). Herbert, 1994a: 139, figs 1–4 (synonymy). Herbert, 1994b: pl. 2b, fig. 2. Bosch et al., 1995: 36, fig. 48. Steyn & Lussi, 1998: 24, fig. 72. Zuschin et al., 2009: 104, pl. 13, fig. 4. Jay, 2014.
Monodonta (Oxystele) tabularis (non Krauss, 1848)— Moura, 1968: 26, pl. 4, fig. 3.
Turbo argyrostomum (non Linnaeus, 1758)— Moura, 1969: 17, pl. 7, fig. 2.
Monilea obscurus — Richards, 1981: 36, pl. 9, fig. 68. Springsteen, 1981: 8, fig. 17. Monilea obscura — Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 41, pl. 8, fig. 19.
Distribution. Western Indian Ocean, from the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, through East Africa and Madagascar, south to Inhaca Island and formerly to Durban Bay (now evidently extinct there); intertidal.
Notes. Priotrochus obscurus ponsonbyi (G.B. Sowerby (III), 1888) is an extinct Pleistocene fossil subspecies occurring in raised beach deposits between Algoa Bay and Mossel Bay (Herbert 1988b).
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- Mollusca
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- Trochida
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- Trochidae
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- Priotrochus
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- Priotrochus obscurus subsp. obscurus Wood, 1828 sec. Herbert, 2015
References
- Wood, W. (1828) Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or a catalogue of shells, British and foreign. W. Wood, London, 59 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 30661
- 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.
- Herbert, D. G. (1994 a) Notes on synonymy within the genus Priotrochus Fischer, 1879, (Prosobranchia: Trochidae). Annals of the Natal Museum, 35, 139 - 151.
- Dautzenberg, P. (1929) Contribution a l'etude de la faune de Madagascar. Mollusca II, Mollusca marina testacea. Faunes des colonies Francais, 3 (4), 115 - 430 (321 - 636).
- Moura, A. R. (1970) Contribuicao para o conhecimento da fauna subfossil do Mucoque (Vilanculos). Revista de Ciencias Biologicas, Series A, 3, 55 - 96, pls. 1 - 10.
- Moura, A. R. (1976) Contribuicao para o conhecimento da fauna malacologica subfossil de Bartolomeu Dias (Inhassoro- Mocambique). Memorias do Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica de Mocambique, Series A, 12, 41 - 87, pls. 1 - 10.
- 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.
- Herbert, D. G. (1988 b) Studies on Priotrochus obscurus and the systematic position of Priotrochus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Zoology, London, 214, 261 - 268. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1988. tb 04720. x
- Herbert, D. G. (1994 b) Trochus kotschyi Philippi, 1849, the first Indian Ocean record of the genus Osilinus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Zoology, London, 233, 345 - 357. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1994. tb 05269. x
- Bosch, D. T, Dance, S. P., Moolenbeek, R. G. & Oliver, P. G. (1995) Seashells of Eastern Arabia. Motivate Publishing, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and London, 296 pp.
- Zuschin, M., Janssen, R. & Baal, C. (2009) Gastropods and their habitats from the northern Red Sea (Egypt: Safaga). Part 1: Patellogastropoda, Vetigastropoda and Cycloneritimorpha. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 111 (A), 73 - 158.
- Jay, M. (2014) Mollusques de l'ile de la Reunion. Version 24. Available from: http: // vieoceane. free. fr / mollusques / intro _ mollusque. htm (accessed 15 April 2015)
- Moura, A. R. (1968) Moluscos dos gres costeiros da Ilho da Inhaca (Mocambique). Revista de Ciencias Biologicas, A, 1, 18 - 52, pls. 1 - 11.
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae. Vol. 1. 10 th Edition. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, 824 pp.
- Moura, A. R. (1969) Contribuicao para o conhecimento dos gres costeiros do Sul do Save (Mocambique). Boletim dos Servicos de Geologia e Minas de Mocambique, 35, 5 - 42, pls. 1 - 11.
- Richards, D. (1981) South African Shells - a Collector's Guide. Struik, Cape Town, 98 pp., 60 pls.
- Springsteen, F. J. (1981) Trochidae of South Africa. Strandloper, 208, 3 - 8.
- Kilburn, R. N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan, Johannesburg, 249 pp., 46 pls.