Gibbula zonata ( Wood, 1828 )

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 : 53-54

Gibbula zonata ( Wood, 1828)

Trochus cingulatus (non Brocchi, 1814, nec Menke, 1828) Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1816: 8, pl. 2, fig. 11a, b. Martens, 1904: 55, 57 note 16. Type loc.: ‘Afrikanische Küste von Marocko’ [African coast of Morocco], erroneous; type material probably in NHMW.

Trochus zonatus Wood, 1828: 17 , pl. 5, fig. 34. Krauss, 1848: 97. Martens, 1874: 129, no. 97. Type loc.: no locality given; 13 syntypes in NHM (NHMUK 20100600) ( Coan & Petit 2011).

Trochus menkeanus Philippi, 1844 in 1842–1845: 91, pl. 3, fig. 6. Type loc.: ‘ Caput Bonae Spei ’ [Cape of Good Hope]; type material perhaps in MNHNC, but more probably lost.

Trochus roseus (non Gmelin, 1791, nec Salis Marschlins, 1793)— Krauss, 1848: 97. Martens, 1874: 129, no. 97. See notes below.

Stomatella margaritana A. Adams, 1850: 33 . A. Adams, 1854b: 839, pl. 174, fig. 31 (not 54 as given in text). Tomlin, 1921b: 237. Type loc.: ‘ in littoribus Australiae ’ [on the shores of Australia] [Cuming], erroneous ( Tomlin 1921b); location of type material unknown (could not be found in NHM, Salvador pers. comm. iii/2015).

Trochus leaensis Watson, 1880: 90 . Type loc.: Lea [Sea] Point, Cape Town; location of type material unknown (could not be found in NHM, Salvador pers. comm. iii/2015).

Trochus (Gibbula) zonatus — Watson, 1886: 76, pl. 6, fig. 7.

Trochus (Gibbula) roseus —G.B. Sowerby (III), 1889b: 153.

Oxystele zonatus —G.B. Sowerby (III), 1892: 42.

Oxystele zonata — E.A. Smith, 1903a: 390

Gibbula rosea — Barnard, 1963a: 271, figs 14j, 18g, j. Grindley & Kensley, 1966: 11. Day, 1969: 160. Kensley, 1973: 38, fig. 82. Richards, 1981: 35, pl. 8, fig. 59.

Gibbula zonata — Barnard, 1963a: 271. Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 41, pl. 8, fig. 17. Springsteen, 1982: 2, fig. 18. Steyn & Lussi, 1998: 20, fig. 53. Branch et al., 2010: 174, fig. 76.9. Marais, 2011: 64.

Gibbula rosea zonata — Day, 1969: 160.

Distribution. W. Cape (Hermanus) to Namibia (Luderitz); living intertidal and shallow subtidal.

Notes. Following Kilburn & Rippey (1982: 41) Trochus roseus Gmelin, 1791 is best considered a nomen dubium. It was based on a figure ( Chemnitz 1781: pl. 171, fig. 1675) which may represent either Gibbula cicer or G. multicolor .

Jujubinus Monterosato, 1884 . Type species (s.d. Pilsbry 1889): Trochus matonii Payraudeau, 1826 [= Trochus exasperatus Pennant, 1777 ].

As pointed out by Vilvens (2012), the genus level taxonomy of high-spired cantharidine taxa (tribe Cantharidini of Hickman & McLean, 1990) is far from clear. For the two following species I maintain the current generic referal, but with little confidence. It seems unlikely that Jujubinus , with a European type species, will prove to be appropriate for these species once molecular data become available. For the present, however, none of the other potentially applicable generic names stands out as being more suitable.