Tectus mauritianus ( Gmelin, 1791 )

Herbert, David G., 2015, An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca), Zootaxa 4049 (1), pp. 1-98 : 73

Tectus mauritianus ( Gmelin, 1791) —new record

Trochus mauritianus Gmelin, 1791: 3582 . Odhner, 1919: 32. Viader, 1937: 55. Braga, 1952: 33, pl. 6, fig. 7. Jarrett, 2000: 5, fig. 14. Type loc.: ‘ frequens ad insulas Barboniae [ sic] et S. Mauritii ’ [frequent at the islands of Bourbon ( Réunion) and Mauritius]; location of type material unknown.

Trochus ( Pyramis) Mauritianus [ sic]— Martens, 1880: 295.

Trochus ( Tectus) mauritianus — Pilsbry, 1889 in 1889 – 1890: 23, pl. 2, figs 11, 12 and pl. 4, figs 24, 25, 27. Lamy, 1909: 331. Dautzenberg, 1929: 534. Bisacchi, 1931: 177. Moura, 1972: 21, pl. 2, fig. 5.

Tectus ( Tectus) mauritianus — Moura, 1966: 25, pl. 1, fig. 1. Moura, 1969: 16. Deuss et al., 2013: 138, fig. b.

Tectus mauritianus — Drivas & Jay, 1988: 34, pl. 2, fig. 4.

Distribution. South-western Indian Ocean, from Tanzania, the Seychelles, Comoros, Mascarene Islands, Madagascar and Mozambique; locally recorded only from the Durban area, but probably occurring only as occasional waifs from populations to the north; living LST and shallow subtidal reefs.

Subgenus Cardinalia Gray, 1842 . Type species (s.d. Wenz 1938): Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791 .