WoRMS name details
original description
(of Trochus obscurus W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199 page(s): 17, pl. 5, fig. 26. [details]
basis of record
Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. <i>Faune des colonies françaises</i>, 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 41 [details]
From other sources
Description Tropical Indo-Pacific, also in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details]
Remark Subgenus (Priotrochus) (Macnae & Kalk,1958).
M. obscurus in MacNae & Kalk, 1958. [details]
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