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Tectus (Cardinalia) virgatus Gmelin 1791

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Tectus (Cardinalia) virgatus (Gmelin, 1791)

Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791: 3580, no. 83. Viader, 1937: 55. Paes da Franca, 1960b: 56, pl. 2, fig. 1. Kensley, 1973: 34, fig. 53. Sheppard, 1984: 46. Jarrett, 2000: 6, fig. 15. Type loc.: ‘ In India ’; location of type material unknown.

Trochus (Cardinalia) virgatus — E.A. Smith, 1903a: 388. Lamy, 1909: 330. Barnard, 1963a: 253. Moura, 1972: 21, pl. 2, fig. 6. Zuschin et al., 2009: 102, pl. 12, figs 1–3.

Tectus (Cardinalia) virgatus — Moura, 1966: 26, pl. 1, fig. 2. Moura, 1969: 16. Herbert, 1993: 299, figs 109–115 (detailed chresonymy). Deuss et al., 2013: 138, fig. a.

Distribution. Red Sea, East Africa and western Indian Ocean islands south to central Zululand (Leven Point) and formerly also in Durban Bay; local specimens living on shallow subtidal reefs to 20 m.

Notes. Records from Indonesia and the Philippines seem unlikely (Herbert 1993).

Notes

Published as part of Herbert, David G., 2015, An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca), pp. 1-98 in Zootaxa 4049 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245367

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Gmelin
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Animalia
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Mollusca
Order
Trochida
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Tegulidae
Genus
Tectus
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virgatus
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Tectus (Cardinalia) virgatus Gmelin, 1791 sec. Herbert, 2015

References

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  • Jarrett, A. G. (2000) Marine Shells of the Seychelles. Carol Green Publishing, Cambridge, 149 pp.
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  • 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.
  • Moura, A. R. (1972) Contribuicao para o conhecimento dos moluscos subfosseis do Relanzapo (Nacala-Mocambique).
  • 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.
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