Stomatolina cf. rubra (Lamarck, 1822) —new record

(Figure 8 G–I)

Stomatella rubra Lamarck, 1822a: 210 . A. Adams, 1854b: 842, pl. 175, figs 53–56. Pilsbry, 1890 in 1890 –1891: 33, pl. 51, figs 26–28, pl. 54, figs 31–33. Type loc.: ‘les mers de l’Inde’ [the seas of India]; two Lamarck specimens in MHNG, one figured by Mermod & Binder (1963: fig. 205).

Stomatollina [sic] rubra — Drivas & Jay, 1988: 32, pl. 1, fig. 8.

Microtis rubra — Wilson, 1993: 73, pl. 11, fig. 5.

Stomatolina rubra — Sasaki, 2000: 71, pl. 35, fig. 81. Poppe et al., 2006: 104, pl. 52, figs 1, 2. Poppe & Tagaro, 2008a: 188, pl. 39, fig. 4.

Distribution. Northern Mozambique (Conducia Bay) to northern Zululand (Leadsman Shoal); beach-drift to 24 m, primarily on off-shore coral reefs (living 8–20 m).

Notes. Spire whorls with a crisp, crenulate shoulder, particularly the penultimate whorl; crenules weak or absent on shoulder of body whorl, not strengthening to form nodules; inner lip of aperture and umbilical region with a distinctive crimson-red blotch, inner lip reflected over umbilicus but generally not closing it off completely; shell variously mottled, spotted, blotched and banded in a wide range of colours including brown, green, red, fawn, orange and white, often heavily so. Restricted to relatively shallow water.