Cinysca forticostata (E.A. Smith, 1904)

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 : 74

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scientific name	Cinysca forticostata (E.A. Smith, 1904)
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Cinysca forticostata (E.A. Smith, 1904) View in CoL

Cynisca forticostata E.A. Smith, 1904a: 38 , pl. 3, figs 12, 13. E.A. Smith, 1906: 53. Turton, 1932: 194. Barnard, 1963a: 227 (in part, includes Homalopoma africanum (Bartsch, 1915)) View in CoL . Kensley, 1973: 44, fig. 116. Type loc.: Port Alfred, E. Cape; seven syntypes in NHM (NHMUK 1903.12.19.1623–29) and two in ANSP (99413).

Cynisca alfredensis Bartsch, 1915: 164 , pl. 29, figs 10–12. Turton, 1932: 194. Type loc.: Port Alfred, E. Cape; holotype in USNM (187109).

Cinysca forticostata View in CoL — Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 48. Steyn & Lussi, 1998: 28, fig. 92. Marais, 2011: 9.

Distribution. Southern Cape, from East London to Mossel Bay; shallow subtidal.

Notes. As currently interpreted this species may be composite, comprising the typical pink-spotted forticostata and a smaller uniformly white species with more finely beaded sculpture and a more constricted umbilicus in the female (McLean in lit. xi/1984). It is this small form that extends west to Mossel Bay, the typical form reaching only to Jeffreys Bay.