Marine Species Traits - Tricolia capensis (Dunker, 1846)

MolluscaBase taxon details

Tricolia capensis (Dunker, 1846)

AphiaID

224649 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224649)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Tricolia Risso, 1826

Original name

Phasianella capensis Dunker, 1846

Synonymised names

Phasianella africana Bartsch, 1915 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Phasianella capensis Dunker, 1846 · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Phasianella farquhari W. H. Turton, 1932 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Phasianella rufanensis W. H. Turton, 1932 · unaccepted

Phasianella rufanensis var. adjacens W. H. Turton, 1932 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Tricolia africana (Bartsch, 1915) · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Phasianella capensis Dunker, 1846) Dunker, W. (1846). Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 3: 108-112., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16291902
page(s): 110 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tricolia capensis (Dunker, 1846). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224649 on 2025-05-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-03-16 08:22:30Z

created

Nsiangango, Silvi Edith

2009-12-04 12:28:50Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2012-01-11 17:52:07Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

Licensing

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original description (of Phasianella capensis Dunker, 1846) Dunker, W. (1846). Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 3: 108-112., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16291902
page(s): 110 [details]

original description (of Phasianella africana Bartsch, 1915) Bartsch, P. (1915). Report on the Turton Collection of South African marine mollusks, with additional notes on other South African shells contained in the United States National Museum. Bulletin. United States National Museum. 91: xii + 305 pp., 54 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32699
page(s): 145, pl 10, fig. 2 [details]

original description (of Phasianella rufanensis W. H. Turton, 1932) Turton, W. H. (1932). The marine shells of Port Alfred S. Africa. Humphrey Milford, London. pp. i-xvi, 1-331, pls 1-70. [published 22 Dec. 1932].
page(s): 174, pl. 41, sp. 1232. [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Phasianella rufanensis var. adjacens W. H. Turton, 1932) Turton, W. H. (1932). The marine shells of Port Alfred S. Africa. Humphrey Milford, London. pp. i-xvi, 1-331, pls 1-70. [published 22 Dec. 1932].
page(s): 174, pl. 41, sp. 1233. [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Phasianella farquhari W. H. Turton, 1932) Turton, W. H. (1932). The marine shells of Port Alfred S. Africa. Humphrey Milford, London. pp. i-xvi, 1-331, pls 1-70. [published 22 Dec. 1932].
page(s): 174, pl. 41, sp. 1234. [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Herbert D.G. (2015). An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca). Zootaxa. 4049(1): 1-98., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Branch, G. M. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg. , available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

additional source Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 28 [details]

additional source Robertson, R. 1985. Archaeogastropod biology and the systematics of the genus Tricolia (Trochacea: Tricoliidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 3: 1-103.
page(s): 21 [details]