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Calliostoma circus Barnard 1969
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Description
Calliostoma circus Barnard, 1969 *
Calliostoma circus Barnard, 1969: 653, fig. 27a. Kensley, 1973: 35, fig. 58. Springsteen, 1981: 4, fig. 6. Type loc.: trawled ‘presumably somewhere off Cape Point’; holotype in SAMC (A30032).
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.
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 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245367
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Calliostomatidae
- Genus
- Calliostoma
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Trochida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Barnard
- Species
- circus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Calliostoma circus Barnard, 1969 sec. Herbert, 2015
References
- Barnard, K. H. (1969) Contributions to the knowledge of South African marine Mollusca. Part VI. Supplement. Annals of the South African Museum, 47, 595 - 661.
- Springsteen, F. J. (1981) Trochidae of South Africa. Strandloper, 208, 3 - 8.
- Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005) Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: a pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Steyn (Published by the authors), Menlyn, S. A., vi + 289 pp.