Turbo (Euninella) laetus Philippi, 1849

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 : 70

Turbo (Euninella) laetus Philippi, 1849

Turbo laetus Philippi, 1849 (January) : 100. Philippi, 1849 (month unknown) in 1842–1852: 71, pl. 17, fig. 1 [plate printed without legend in 1845]. Steyn & Lussi, 1998: 26, fig. 87. Type loc.: not given in original, but given as east coast of Africa by Philippi (1849 in 1842 – 1852); the figured specimen from A.B. Meyer may once have been in the Zoology Museum of Hamburg University, the dry shell collections of which were destroyed in WWII (Hausdorf, pers. comm. vii/2015).

Turbo splendidulus (non O.G. Costa, 1829) G.B. Sowerby (III), 1886b: 229, pl. 14[506], figs 180, 181. E.A. Smith, 1903a: 387. Barnard, 1963a: 211. Kensley, 1973: 50, fig. 140. Moura, 1976: 47, 52, pl. 2, figs 4a, b. Type loc.: not given; holotype in NHM (NHMUK 1886.4.2.1), Salvador pers. comm. (viii/2015).

Turbo (Euninella) laetus — Kilburn, 1972: 398. Alf & Kreipl, 2003: 45, pl. 65. Williams, 2007: 578.

Not Turbo laetus Montrouzier, 1863 [= Collonia granulosa Pease, 1868 ( Herbert 1996) ].

Distribution. East Africa and Madagascar south to the KwaZulu-Natal–E. Cape border (Mzamba); living LST and shallow subtidal reefs to 20 m (mostly on off-shore reefs in South Africa).

Subgenus Lunatica Röding, 1798 . Type species (s.d. Herrmannsen 1847): Turbo olearius Linnaeus, 1758 [= Turbo marmoratus Linnaeus, 1758 ].