Oxystele tabularis ( Krauss, 1848 )

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 : 59

Oxystele tabularis ( Krauss, 1848)

Trochus (Oxystele) tabularis Krauss, 1848: 97 , pl. 5, fig. 30. Type loc.: ‘ in sinu tabulari ’[Table Bay], erroneous; nine syntypes in SMNH (49610) (Herbert & Warén 1988).

Monodonta (Oxystele) tabularis — Troschel, 1879: 230, pl. 23, fig. 2 ( radula ). Moura, 1970: 64, pl. 2, fig. 3.

Oxystele tabularis — Barnard, 1963a: 269. Kennelly, 1964: 54, pl. 4, fig. 22. Day, 1969: 160. Kensley, 1973: 40, fig. 91. Richards, 1981: 36, pl. 9, fig. 69. Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 42, pl. 9, fig. 2. Branch, 1984: 15. Branch et al., 2010: 176, fig. 77.5.

Diloma tabularis —Steyn & Lussi, 1998: 24, fig. 77.

Not Monodonta (Oxystele) tabularis — Moura, 1968: 26, pl. 4, fig. 3. [= Priotrochus obscurus ( Wood, 1828) ]

Distribution. Southern Mozambique (Inhambane) to E. Cape (Port Alfred), extending further west during warm water anomalies ( Branch 1984); intertidal.