Tectus (Cardinalia) virgatus (Gmelin, 1791)

Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791: 3580, no. 83. Viader, 1937: 55. Paes da Franca, 1960b: 56, pl. 2, fig. 1. Kensley, 1973: 34, fig. 53. Sheppard, 1984: 46. Jarrett, 2000: 6, fig. 15. Type loc.: ‘ In India ’; location of type material unknown.

Trochus (Cardinalia) virgatus — E.A. Smith, 1903a: 388. Lamy, 1909: 330. Barnard, 1963a: 253. Moura, 1972: 21, pl. 2, fig. 6. Zuschin et al., 2009: 102, pl. 12, figs 1–3.

Tectus (Cardinalia) virgatus — Moura, 1966: 26, pl. 1, fig. 2. Moura, 1969: 16. Herbert, 1993: 299, figs 109–115 (detailed chresonymy). Deuss et al., 2013: 138, fig. a.

Distribution. Red Sea, East Africa and western Indian Ocean islands south to central Zululand (Leven Point) and formerly also in Durban Bay; local specimens living on shallow subtidal reefs to 20 m.

Notes. Records from Indonesia and the Philippines seem unlikely (Herbert 1993).