An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca)
Author
Herbert, David G.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4049
1
1
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journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1
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Calliostoma circus
Barnard,
1969
*
Calliostoma circus
Barnard,
1969
:
653
, fig.
27
a. Kensley,
1973
:
35
, fig.
58
.
Springsteen,
1981
:
4
, fig.
6
.
Type
loc.: trawled ‘presumably somewhere off Cape Point’;
holotype
in
SAMC
(
A
30032
).
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
material.
Notes.
Since no further specimens have been found, it seems probable that the specimen was obtained in deep water, well beyond the continental shelf. The specimen illustrated under this name by
Steyn & Lussi (
2005
:
12
, no.
12
)
has fine intermediary spiral sculpture and appears to be a different species, but its identity is unclear. Ulimately,
C. circus
may prove to belong to
Maurea
Oliver,
1926
.