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
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1
98
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1
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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
.